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.
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It appears that some newer Captivates being sold suffer from not being able to reboot into download or recovery mode using the three button (VOL UP + VOL DOWN and PWR) combination. These phones will not respond to these key combinations. If you have one of these phones, you have a significantly higher risk of bricking your phone irreversibly since you cannot three button reboot into download mode from a failed flash.
The first two Captivates I used did not have this problem. The two Captivates I got this week both DO have this problem. Others who have purchased their Captivate recently (in the past week) have discovered this problem as well. This indicates it may be more common in newer Captivates.
A number of Galaxy S I9000 have experienced this problem and they have put pressure on Samsung Canada via Facebook to fix the problem. For those affected, I suggest we do the same for our Captivates:
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobile?v=wall
Examples of Captivates that can't use three button recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8066648
and from I9000 users:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765703
Asked and answered my own question. Relevant information condensed into the post above.
Pretty sure you can still do it... try this
shut down your phone, plug in the usb cable and wait for the battery to come up, then do the key combo.
I call user error. How and why stop key combos? I wouldnt think it would happen.
smokestack76 said:
I call user error. How and why stop key combos? I wouldnt think it would happen.
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I've went through 2 cap's also, both cannot do it. I have to use ADB to kick into recovery. Also, in the SRE thread another user had the same issue. All bought within the last week..
Thanks for the heads up. I was planning on swapping mine out because it isn't consistently detecting my SIM card; looks like I should wait for a bit and see if this is a temporary issue.
I swapped mine so its the so called newer one. And i can still use the buttons just fine. Even tried with another one today and still worked fine. So i dunno.
To clearify some issues. Power off. Hold power and BOTH volume buttons down. Thats the key here. Once the att screen comes on wait. Dont do anything. The screen turns off. THEN the screen comes back on. Thats right twice. THEN release the power button. ONLY the power button and continue holding the volume up AND down. You will see recovery menu.
thats exactly how we are doing it. its the download that is having issues though, not recovery. thats holding both vols, pluggin in USB. it should go to Download mode, but it doesnt.
Ok just tested. Same thing with usb plugged in takes you to download.
Make sure odin is up and running. And usb is plugged in when u power off. Not sure if its needed but thats how i tested it.
Worked fine here plugging in a usb after powed off.
If this does not work for you please post a system dump. Or pm me for more help. Kinda wonder why so many users have these issues :-(
I was having these problems as well.. When I first got that phone I tried to boot it into recovery mode, and it wouldn't work.. THe only way I was able to get it into recovery mode was through quick boot.
So while I was flashing the SRE v 1.2.2a somehow it got stuck in a loop of installing the files over and over..
I tried putting the phone into download mode via every button combination people suggested.. I literally am not exaggerating that I spent 4 hours trying over and over..
Today i sent it back rma.
Take your phone back if 3 button recovery mode does not work
malfuncion said:
I've went through 2 cap's also, both cannot do it. I have to use ADB to kick into recovery. Also, in the SRE thread another user had the same issue. All bought within the last week..
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Here is my suggestion. Take your phone back if it does not do the 3 button recovery mode. Otherwise you will sooner or later brick it and not be able to recover:cool. Take it from someone who has bricked one that could not do the 3 button recovery mode. I lucked out and got a new phone that does do the 3 button rec now LOL. Test the phone in the store to ensure it can go into recovery mode.
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To clearify some issues. Power off. Hold power and BOTH volume buttons down. Thats the key here. Once the att screen comes on wait. Dont do anything. The screen turns off. THEN the screen comes back on. Thats right twice. THEN release the power button. ONLY the power button and continue holding the volume up AND down. You will see recovery menu.
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Did this for about 2 hours on both devices. No joy. If you follow the links I posted in the first post, you'll see that a number of I9000 devices have this problem and now a couple of ours do as well. It has to do with the way they are flashed from the factory.
I can certify (unless I have gone completely mental) than I am doing it the right way. I had two Captivates before this that I could put into download and recovery easily using the vol up + vol down + pwr combo. The last two, no way. Also cannot do the vol up + vol down then plug in USB with ODIN running and ready to get out of brick mode (i.e. computer -!- phone). Which means once bricked, always bricked.
I've attached build info for the device. JF6, built 8.11.2010, hardware is REV0.4.
ok so I am basically screwed then. I just called AT&T and they wont warranty the device. Do I have to call samsung? I got that number: 18889874357.
AT&T didnt even know what a recovery mode was, they wanted to walk me through the factory reset on the phone itself.
Has this issue been confirmed with Samsung?
Called Samsung this morning- actually just got off the line. I spoke to about 3 people, then finally got to level 3 support. They stepped me through the same steps I have read everywhere- the 3 button reset. He actually had me try it a few different ways too. After a second, he put me on hold to see if there is some other way to put the phone into recovery or download mode, but after 5 minutes he came back and had no good news. He had a couple things he googled but they didnt work- of course. He basically resolved the call with "I don't know what to do..." So I then asked if this is an RMA'able problem and he said he didnt think so since the phone functions fine but put me on hold again for another 5 minutes. Finally he came back and said he can setup an RMA to do a factory reflash. It is a 2day air to send it to them, then a flashing, and a 2day back. Should take about a week or so. He suggested I maybe go to AT&T and possibly get it replaced that way first so I will head over to corporate this evening. If that doesnt work then I'm sending it off to Samsung...
I had much difficulty getting into recovery. But it turned out to be a matter of timing. Using the usb cable plugged in seems to change the criteria and made it easier to get into recovery.
What I do now. Phone is off. Wait at least 10 sec after shutdown to ensure it is fully off. In low light you may see a small amount of light coming from the screen then it goes black.
Press both volumes then the power button and hold till the att screen pops up. After att screen is on (the initial screen not the animation) for one or two second. Release power then volume quickly. If that doesn't work try it as design gears describes with the usb cable.
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Dani897 said:
What I do now. Phone is off. Wait at least 10 sec after shutdown to ensure it is fully off. In low light you may see a small amount of light coming from the screen then it goes black.
Press both volumes then the power button and hold till the att screen pops up. After att screen is on (the initial screen not the animation) for one or two second. Release power then volume quickly. If that doesn't work try it as design gears describes with the usb cable.
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Tried umpteenth different timings. Now that I have one of my original Captivates back, the difference is clear. I can get it into recovery/download 100% of the time. On both the new ones, 0% -- as in never. It's gonna be a fun conversation at the AT&T store trying to tell them that:
1. The phone is broken because I can't get it to switch into a mode mainly reserved for engineers.
2. I will test the replacement they give me for the same problem and return it if doesn't work.
3. Repeat step 2 until I find one that works.
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?
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.
So my story begins with me purchasing a used white Nexus 5 for $155 from swappa over a week ago for my wife. *
Phone arrives in perfect condition.
I first unlocked and flash twrp via adb. I proceed with installing Chroma and elementalx. Spend few hours on making the new Nexus 5 the same as my wife's current Galaxy Nexus.
Phone is running great. Zero issues for about 3 days while the phone was just at home running. She throws the phone into her purse and goes to work. Within hour she calls that her phone won't stop rebooting…. *Oh no…. The dreaded power button issue… right?
So I'm assuming the seller did the old “whack against a solid object” temp fix and sold it. I have no proof of that so I'm assuming.
So what do to? Well fixing the power button is still cheaper than buying another Nexus 5 phone. Everyone one quoted me $60. It is what it is… at this point I could have gotten a refurbished phone but what can you do…
So you would think this is the end of my story, right? Wrong.
I go to a cell phone repair place close to my work. They have this tiny power button in stock and replaced it many times before. I come back later that day to pick it up and they have bad news… of course they do.
After the switch replacement, the phone did the same reboot. Goes to Google logo and reboot. If I fiddle with the power button I can get to the OS but reboot right away. The guy proceeds with that it is me rooting it that caused it and I need a new motherboard, price $100.
I started questioning if he really did replace the switch. If it was OS related, the phone would not have worked for couple days and then break randomly. It would not boot to the OS sometimes or at least it would let me boot into TWRP, right?
Long story short, I left with spending the $100 on getting this used $155 phone fixed. Super annoyed at this point.
So after this long story, is there any chance this was really OS related and not a faulty power switch or did I just got lied to and the power switch was never replaced?
For sure, you should've attempted to restore the phone through Google's factory images first. My power button went super wacky twice since I've had it(day 1 model). I just pulled it out, and now the problem is gone all on it's on.
When it kept rebooting, did you try booting into the bootloader at all?
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Curiousn00b said:
For sure, you should've attempted to restore the phone through Google's factory images first. My power button went super wacky twice since I've had it(day 1 model). I just pulled it out, and now the problem is gone all on it's on.
When it kept rebooting, did you try booting into the bootloader at all?
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I sure tried to get into recovery but wouldn't work. Just kept rebooting. I had a nandroid backup done a day before but the phone would not stay powered on for long enough to do anything. It was the equivalent of having no battery left and phone just shut down and attempted to reboot constantly. I took out the motherboard and played around with the button before I went out to repair it but it was the same results. If I "massaged" the button then maybe the phone would get past the Chroma logo and get into the OS, but as soon as I attempted to touch the power button again it would reboot.
I tried reviewing the old motherboard and unless this shop's soldering skills are top notch, I can't tell that the switch was replaced. The soldering point were identical to the volume buttons. When I questioned the store owner, he stated they are that good with their infrared soldering He took out a package of 3 Nexus 5 switches and one was missing... meaning he installed it.
I highly doubt it was OS related. If you brick a phone when flashing, then it would just be constantly in a boot loop, right? I know I can easily go into recovery and flash whatever .img I need to, but this was just nonstop reboot and different times
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.