Related
So my GS3 has been fine up until about an hour ago. It looks like the power button is somehow stuck to "on," as in, the button acts like it's always being pressed.
The physical button isn't stuck down. It clicks just fine. Here is my problem, I'm rooted with a custom recovery. I can't get into download mode to odin back to stock. whenever I press vol up to go into download mode it immediately reboots or boots the phone up.
Am I completely hosed here? If I take the battery out and put it back in it immediately powers up(hence why the power button is stuck in "on"). Also, another factor proving that the power button is always triggered as if held down is I can pop the battery in and just press vol down and home and it will launch into the initial download mode screen(press vol up to continue).
EDIT: I want to odin back to stock in order to send it in for warranty replacement.
antiseen said:
So my GS3 has been fine up until about an hour ago. It looks like the power button is somehow stuck to "on," as in, the button acts like it's always being pressed.
The physical button isn't stuck down. It clicks just fine. Here is my problem, I'm rooted with a custom recovery. I can't get into download mode to odin back to stock. whenever I press vol up to go into download mode it immediately reboots or boots the phone up.
Am I completely hosed here? If I take the battery out and put it back in it immediately powers up(hence why the power button is stuck in "on"). Also, another factor proving that the power button is always triggered as if held down is I can pop the battery in and just press vol down and home and it will launch into the initial download mode screen(press vol up to continue).
EDIT: I want to odin back to stock in order to send it in for warranty replacement.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I literally had the exact same problem yesterday and today. What I did was unscrewed the little screws holding the back plate on and this gave me more access to the power button. I popped the plastic cover of the power button off with my fingernail and proceeded to lightly press and jiggle it. This allowed for it to work temporarily which gave me time to odin back to stock and now my phone is being replaced under warranty.
Best of luck!
Have you tried massaging the button back and forth to try to loosen it? It might be easier than removing the screws to access it more. (If it works)
Literally just started happening to me yesterday also. Not quite to that extent, it randomly clicks on and the power menu jumps up over everything I do, but maybe I should return to stock before it does get stuck down. Either of you use the ZeroLemon 7000 ma/h battery and case?
My power button is activating randomly/with very little input. The power menu comes up randomly and cannot turn off screen with lock button.
Warranty is replacing it. However, I am on KitKat right now.... When I boot into download mode, the phone just reboots after a few seconds. Like the power button is being pressed or held down, not sure. When I reboot the phone, it just keeps rebooting/vibrate and never boots until I hold down power button until splash screen comes up.
Thinking I need to put back to stock so do not run into issues when I send it back to verizon, but still having issues with the phone rebooting into download mode. Any ideas on how to get back to stock or tips?
Should I be concerned about sending a phone that is not stock back to verizon?
Use mobile Odin from the play store. I use it all the time. Just put the stock tar file on your SD card and flash.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
Recently, I've been having trouble with my phones power button, as in it doesn't work. I can click it all I want and it won't do anything. However, if I ever take the battery out or if the battery dies and I put the phone on the charger it automatically boots up as if I had hit the power button. This really isn't a big deal except I would like to change the rom on it and am not sure how to do so anymore without a functioning power button. You guys have any advice on what the problem might be or how to change the rom without a functional power button?
alnwpi said:
Recently, I've been having trouble with my phones power button, as in it doesn't work. I can click it all I want and it won't do anything. However, if I ever take the battery out or if the battery dies and I put the phone on the charger it automatically boots up as if I had hit the power button. This really isn't a big deal except I would like to change the rom on it and am not sure how to do so anymore without a functioning power button. You guys have any advice on what the problem might be or how to change the rom without a functional power button?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Download an app called flashify from the market, open the app, select zip file, pick to flash either with TWRP or CWM (depended what you have installed as recovery), then hit yes to reboot.
You could install xposed module and reassign the power button to another physical hardware button and then replace that button with something like LMT launcher. Sounds convoluted but my power button stopped working and now my home button is my power button and I have LMT taking care of the home functionality. But that won't work in recovery sorry.
Sent from my ST18i
I had to rip my power button off from the motherboard. If I ever find a button worthy of soldering on I'll send you a link to it. Although I will probably wait until I get a new phone.
I tried using Flashify to flash a 4.4 ROM. Unfortunately, now the phone won't boot. It will get to the black screen that says Samsung SIII, stay there for a little bit and then shut off at which point it tries to turn on again since the power button must be stuck. Any ideas as to how I could fix it from my computer?
alnwpi said:
Recently, I've been having trouble with my phones power button, as in it doesn't work. I can click it all I want and it won't do anything. However, if I ever take the battery out or if the battery dies and I put the phone on the charger it automatically boots up as if I had hit the power button. This really isn't a big deal except I would like to change the rom on it and am not sure how to do so anymore without a functioning power button. You guys have any advice on what the problem might be or how to change the rom without a functional power button?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately, not to my current knowledge. Power button fix's can be troublesome if you don't know how to put it on the motherboard properly.
Personally, I've repaired hundreds of power buttons on an S3.
Just wanted to give you guys an update. I was able to get my phone into boot mode and realized I could swipe right to make selections. I installed a couple old roms i had on the memory card but it would never get past the turn on animation. I finally just downloaded the adb sdk and used it to download a rom onto my phone using adb sideload through the terminal on my mac. I think that's what I did, basically just followed instructions on a screen. Anyways, updated to 4.4 so I'm happy.
Is there a way to shut off the phone without the power button?
I left my phone out in the rain for about 20-30 minutes, the power button and the volume up button are no longer functioning. Is there a way to shut off this phone without the power button functioning and without root?
The phone is sitting in rice atm...
Hello.
My power button is broken. The only way I know to turn the phone on is removing the battery and connecting it quickly. I could get into the stock recovery pressing vol + and connecting to the charger but I need the power button to select any option, I installed TWRP recovery but I cannot use it, the button combination is different to get into (vol + & power button).
Is there any other way to turn on or use recovery when the phone is off?
Thanks
Fastbooting it from the computer is a solution..
Fastboot is disabled in android marshmallow. Now, how can we boot the phone ?
One last resort option is to send it to Alcatel. I had issues with my power button failing and they resolved it. (FTR I was still under warranty)
I had this problem. Eventually found a video for it on YouTube. I couldn't return my phone to Alcatel as I had dropped it in the toilet ? and then taken it apart to dry it out.
If its still under warranty I would return it to Alcatel. If not then the way to turn it on is a bit of a pain at first but quite easy when you've done it a few times. You do have to take the back off your phone.
If you are happy there is a reasonable amount of charge already in it then plug it in to a charger whilst holding the volume up button (or down button I forget which!) This should start the phone in the recovery mode.
Then unplug the phone.
Then very quickly disconnect and reconnect the battery.
Phone will turn on.
Put phone back together.
Keep battery charged!
Some kind person made a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFE8FdTXrY