Galaxy S6 Lock Button Holding/Sticking - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S6

My Galaxy S6 has been having a problem where every time I press the lock button, it acts as if I held it and it shows the power options, and I'm unable to lock the screen. Sometimes if I use the lock button to wake it up, it will flash the screen multiple times like I'm pressing the button more than once. Then if I press it again, it will show power options.
The button still has a definite click, so it's not literally sticking.
I've searched around, but I can't find anything on this happening other than people having the button literally stuck. What can I do about this? Is there a way I can remove the lock button and clean it? And I'm not about to take a heat gun to the phone and pry it open.

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[Q] how to track down the app that causes delays in turning the screen on

Hi, my S3 has a problem in that if the screen turns off and I immediately (well, fairly soon) press the home button or side power button to wake it up again.. there is a very long delay... so much that I only use the home button now, because I keep clicking the side button and often by the time the screen wakes up, it will have gone back to sleep because I had pressed the power button again.
So now I use home because home will not turn the screen off, only on.
Anyhow I'm sure it must be due to some app doing some processing when the screen goes off...
my question is, how do I track down the app? I have no idea which one it is
I have no problem to get the screen to turn on immediately, if some time has passed... let's say 30 seconds.. but often you need to turn the screen back on after it has timed out, so it's annoying to have to wait 10 seconds after immediately pressing the button.
btw. I use Cyanogenmod (android 4.3) but I don't think it's the cause because I don't remember this behaviour when I first installed it.
any ideas? thanks
mishaxz said:
Hi, my S3 has a problem in that if the screen turns off and I immediately (well, fairly soon) press the home button or side power button to wake it up again.. there is a very long delay... so much that I only use the home button now, because I keep clicking the side button and often by the time the screen wakes up, it will have gone back to sleep because I had pressed the power button again.
So now I use home because home will not turn the screen off, only on.
Anyhow I'm sure it must be due to some app doing some processing when the screen goes off...
my question is, how do I track down the app? I have no idea which one it is
I have no problem to get the screen to turn on immediately, if some time has passed... let's say 30 seconds.. but often you need to turn the screen back on after it has timed out, so it's annoying to have to wait 10 seconds after immediately pressing the button.
btw. I use Cyanogenmod (android 4.3) but I don't think it's the cause because I don't remember this behaviour when I first installed it.
any ideas? thanks
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I'm interested as well, I really wish samsung would improve the wake time on their phones. My HTC turned on without delay

[Q] CyanogenMod with Broken Power Button

SO I looked around and diddn't see my particular issue posted already.
My S III has a broken power button: when I gently tap the power button the phone locks, then turns back on, and then shows the power off options as it would if I held the power button down. I dissasembled the phone and tried using the hardware button itself (without the actual plastic button over it) and I had the same issues.
I am broke and really want CM on this phone. As you would expect, If I even try to get into download mode to flash CWM Recovery, the power button forces the device to restart.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way that I could install CyanogenMod without the use of this button or maybe any other way.
All help is appreciated,
Thanks!
Edit: If it helps, I just noticed that i'm on 4.3. Is there even a way to unlock or roll back the bootloader at this point?
Thanks again.

19/6 ParanoidAndroid w/ AK269 - 'SCREEN DOESN'T TURN ON'

Does anyone else get this issue:
Sometimes, when I try to unlock my phone, the screen remains black. Sometimes the capacative buttons light up, but not all the time. Double tapping doesn't turn the screen on, pressing the power button doesn't turn the screen on.
I just press and hold the power button when it happens to make the phone restart, and then it starts optimizing all the apps on start up as well. This has happened 3-4 times in the last day. Very annoying. Any ideas how to fix this would be much appreciated!

Stop phone from restarting when power button is accidentally pressed for 5 seconds?

I'm having a problem with the power button. It seems that it is a "feature" of the Honor 8 that if you hold down the power button for 5 seconds, the phone will restart without asking if that is really what you want to do. It happens either when I am carrying the phone in my left hand with my fingers wrapped around the buttons on the right side, or when the phone is in my pocket and I am working outside and I squat down and my pocket presses against the power button. Is there a way to disable the phone from restarting without asking? If the screen is unlocked, there is a prompt but after 5 seconds of holding the power button, it restarts anyway.
I think it's a common "safety" feature in practically any Android phone that if you keep power button pressed long enough, it will force reboot the phone. It's been that way in my Samsung, Motorola, Google, Asus, and Honor phones.

power button doesn't work anymore

Hello,
last evening my s10e had an issue at the power button/fingerprint scanner, it doesnt work anymore! for me now it's impossible to power on the phone, i feel a classical click when i push the button, but the phone doesn't start, is there a way to power on it without this button?
i've tried to connect the phone and force the start with adb, but it remais off.
Help me please, i am in greece for holidays and i can't go in a samsung point
Are you tries restarting phone with button combo?
Using a particular combination of buttons, you can force your Galaxy S10, S10 plus, and the S10e to restart the system. Here’s how to do this.
Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Down button simultaneously until the device screen turns off.
May need to press and hold for more than 7 seconds
It will shut down and restart automatically
If the device screen stays black and you’re unable to see if it has turned off, keep holding down the Power and Volume Down buttons until you feel a vibration.
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5ta1da said:
Are you tries restarting phone with button combo?
Using a particular combination of buttons, you can force your Galaxy S10, S10 plus, and the S10e to restart the system. Here’s how to do this.
Press and hold the Power button and the Volume Down button simultaneously until the device screen turns off.
May need to press and hold for more than 7 seconds
It will shut down and restart automatically
If the device screen stays black and you’re unable to see if it has turned off, keep holding down the Power and Volume Down buttons until you feel a vibration.
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Thank you for your answer! Unfortunately i tried to force restart with this combination but nothing has happened... it's very weird, tomorrow i will return at home and i will go in a samsung point for the check up. I will write update as soon as i will understand what happened :/
After few days the assistance told me that the cause of the problem was water (wasnt it waterproof?) so i have to change power and volume buttons. Very disappointed
Must still be at the store
same thing
I was looking for some infor. My powerbutton stopped working. The fingerprint sensor works but not the power button. I wanted to take a few shots underwater. Maybe just 10 inches underwater and this happend. Looks like its not so waterproofed. I got lucky that the device was on. It looks like if it get off there is no way to turn it on.

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