Hi, I sold a very old phone earlier and the person sent me this video saying the phone is broken and you have to double press things.
Am I right in thinking this is a setting and can be easily fixed? It looks to be software rather than hardware. Their son is very upset so I'd like to fix it asap! If possible, otherwise a refund obviously.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod. Thanks
Edit: Fixed by holding down both the volume buttons for 3 seconds!
Easiest way would be to a factory reset since it's going to a new user. Make sure you delete the Google and Samsung accounts first then do the reset in settings not the boot menu if possible.
Thanks, it has already been reset though and it was like this from the start? It's very strange, not sure how to disable it. (also doesn't help that I don't have access to the phone!)
blizeH said:
Hi, I sold a very old phone earlier and the person sent me this video saying the phone is broken and you have to double press things: https://streamable.com/k9gp7h
Am I right in thinking this is a setting and can be easily fixed? It looks to be software rather than hardware. Their son is very upset so I'd like to fix it asap! If possible, otherwise a refund obviously.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod. Thanks
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Why not let them do a simple factory reset?
Update: fixed! I think holding down both volume buttons for 3 seconds seemed to work
blizeH said:
Update: fixed! I think holding down both volume buttons for 3 seconds seemed to work
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You already did a factory reset and it persisted.
So you did a hard reboot and that temporarily at least did the trick?
Thanks, like I said it's tricky because I don't have access to the phone, but either way they are happy with it now But yup - it was from a full reset and it was there, unless they turned it on by accident.
blizeH said:
Thanks, like I said it's tricky because I don't have access to the phone, but either way they are happy with it now But yup - it was from a full reset and it was there, unless they turned it on by accident.
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May be an Accessibility feature. Sort of sounds like it. Lol for Vets that can't break the double tap habit.
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I have had my Samsung Galaxy S i9003 for a month and my soft keys stop working!!!!
every time i i press the home key the other two soft keys light up. but when i press the soft keys they just do not respond. it is really frustrating!
is there any cure for this problem?
Try Factory Reset first...
Hope that works
Uhmmm not sure if this will work but get sgs tools and upgrade your touchscreen version? I think that's right I'm not sure, but just mess with the app until you find something that upgraded your soft keys? I forgot its been a while. Sgs isn't working right now because I'm on miui :/ sorry
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zhaky_gng said:
Try Factory Reset first...
Hope that works
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yea i did all that yet it didnt work. so any other options??
duboi97 said:
Uhmmm not sure if this will work but get sgs tools and upgrade your touchscreen version? I think that's right I'm not sure, but just mess with the app until you find something that upgraded your soft keys? I forgot its been a while. Sgs isn't working right now because I'm on miui :/ sorry
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oohh i see. but i just gave my cell today to a guy who is going to check it and will let me know by Thursday. i just hope there is some good news.
nagelmenezes said:
I have had my Samsung Galaxy S i9003 for a month and my soft keys stop working!!!!
every time i i press the home key the other two soft keys light up. but when i press the soft keys they just do not respond. it is really frustrating!
is there any cure for this problem?
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i found the solution.. one is by doing full factory reset.. or updating your phone.. and if this does not work then the screen has to be replaced. as the small film inside the phone has got damaged..
why dont work it
Common complaint with the Samsung Galaxy's unfortunately, and maybe even some other Samsung types.
For my i9000m, the "return" soft key won't work if certain apps are running in the background. I know for sure that WhatsApp is one of them, especially if there is a pending message. I think CSipSimple unfortunately is another one.
Try going to Settings>Apps>Manage running services and kill anything that is non-essential. If that doesn't work, try temporarily un-installing the apps that run in the background and restarting the phone.
I found which apps cause problems by process of elimination. Luckily the the problematic ones are not ones I really need.
EDIT: Just realized that Settings>Apps>Manage running services does not show all running apps. I used Astra's Task Killer to get a complete list of running services. Sure enough, I installed CSipSimple yesterday and it was running in the background and killing my soft key functionality.
I noticed that I couldn't control the volume when in Gingerbread, I restarted the Nexus S. The Nexus S is now booting into the recovery menu by default, I can't boot into the OS.
The volume in the recovery menu works as expected (though slightly delayed), the real problem is that the power button has the same function as the volume up.
My phone is rooted and the bootloader is unlocked, this was done several months ago though.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Sounds like you lost your OS, you need to re-install the rom through recovery. Just Wipe your data and cache, mount usb, transfer the rom to your sd, and install. EZ PZ
smoka206 said:
Sounds like you lost your OS, you need to re-install the rom through recovery. Just Wipe your data and cache, mount usb, transfer the rom to your sd, and install. EZ PZ
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Thanks for the reply, I was able to boot into the OS using the fastboot command "fastboot reboot". I then flashed a previous backup I made three months ago, sadly this did nothing to alleviate my problem. I am convinced this is a hardware failure of some sort.
I have now flashed an unrooted stock rom and locked the bootloader as I intend to invoke warrenty and send it over to Samsung.
Naturally, this had to happen right when Ice Cream Sandwich launches on the Nexus S.
Yes my friend this happened to my buddy as I was lucky enough to get fastboot to recognize the pc after hundreds of tries so I could lock the bootloaders back up
Let me guess does your phone turn on by itself when you plug it in to charge?
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Yes my friend this happened to my buddy as I was lucky enough to get fastboot to recognize the pc after hundreds of tries so I could lock the bootloaders back up
Let me guess does your phone turn on by itself when you plug it in to charge?
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Woah, come to think of it my phone did turn on by itself! And it took me at least an hour for fastboot to recognize my phone. I assume your friend sent it in under warrenty? How long did it take until he got a replacement?
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I noticed that I couldn't control the volume when in Gingerbread, I restarted the Nexus S. The Nexus S is now booting into the recovery menu by default, I can't boot into the OS.
The volume in the recovery menu works as expected (though slightly delayed), the real problem is that the power button has the same function as the volume up.
My phone is rooted and the bootloader is unlocked, this was done several months ago though.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Sounds like your volume key is broken and the volume down key is always pressed.
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Sounds like your volume key is broken and the volume down key is always pressed.
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That is what I thought at first, but the power button will not execute like it should.
He has some sort of best buy warranty and I just gave it back to him today with locked bootloaders
BEST DAMN PHONE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BEST DAMN DEVELOPERS!
If your without warranty what I would do is install cyanogen mod and use the volume wake option or if you want to use ICS then get goto lock screen app from the market and use that to wake the device with the volume wake option
I say this because his power button went out completely and there was a major problem with his USB connection
Its like the power button is always being held in. This problem started for him before flashing any custom rom,it made it really hard to root and because mounting storage and fastboot drivers sucked but hang in there and keep this post alive as I'm going to take it apart tomorrow and see if something is loose or not making good connection
Were you hard on it? he is as we work in a sugar factory
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mike216 said:
If your without warranty what I would do is install cyanogen mod and use the volume wake option or if you want to use ICS then get goto lock screen app from the market and use that to wake the device with the volume wake option
I say this because his power button went out completely and there was a major problem with his USB connection
Its like the power button is always being held in. This problem started for him before flashing any custom rom,it made it really hard to root and because mounting storage and fastboot drivers sucked but hang in there and keep this post alive as I'm going to take it apart tomorrow and see if something is loose or not making good connection
Were you hard on it? he is as we work in a sugar factory
BEST DAMN PHONE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE BEST DAMN DEVELOPERS!
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I should still have warranty with Samsung as I bought my phone in May. I don't think I was too rough with my phone, that said it's in my pocket most if the time. The power button works fine, the volume up is another story. Thanks for helping.
no problem mike,please keep me posted on how your return to samsung turns out and if there are any obsticles you have to go through
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no problem mike,please keep me posted on how your return to samsung turns out and if there are any obsticles you have to go through
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I called Samsung, they told me I could take it into my local Rogers store to get it repaired. When showing the Rogers employee what was wrong my phone just magically started working again, it seemed to good to be true. And as it turned out it was, as my phone cannot send or receive calls. Hopefully I won't be without a Smartphone for too long.
Thanks for all the replies everyone.
Out of nowhere my power button magically no longer works. Kind of a huge deal since I use my phone for work a TON. At first I thought it was the ROM but then I rebooted into recovery and discovered it doesn't work in there either...... but by some sort of miracle though my phone magically boots itself up when I swap batteries in it....
I am rooted and running Beans 20.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
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You can get an app called button savior from Google play that allows you to create on screen keys to turn off your screen.
Various xposed modules allow you to remap your physical keys. If you don't know about the xposed framework I highly suggest looking into it.
Furthermore I believe some custom roms have key mapping built in.
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You can get an app called button savior from Google play that allows you to create on screen keys to turn off your screen.
Various xposed modules allow you to remap your physical keys. If you don't know about the xposed framework I highly suggest looking into it.
Furthermore I believe some custom roms have key mapping built in.
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Yes I already got an app that will shut my screen off and lock it but what happens when my phone stops magically booting up all by itself??
Then I'm screwed.
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flooritnfly said:
Yes I already got an app that will shut my screen off and lock it but what happens when my phone stops magically booting up all by itself??
Then I'm screwed.
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Mine started doing the same thing.
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Out of nowhere my power button magically no longer works. Kind of a huge deal since I use my phone for work a TON. At first I thought it was the ROM but then I rebooted into recovery and discovered it doesn't work in there either...... but by some sort of miracle though my phone magically boots itself up when I swap batteries in it....
I am rooted and running Beans 20.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
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My power button just started malfunctioning too. I'm on Odin barebones 4.1.2 stock and the problem persists.
It sounds like a lot of people are getting this problem. If you use that knowledge to your advantage, I've heard people convince Samsung it's a manufacturing problem and got it repaired outside of Warranty. The power button itself is sautered onto the motherboard, so unless you really trust a mobile repair company, best option is work directly with Samsung.
That being said, I'm going to look for an Xposed Framework module that can remap the power button.
I looked for one, didn't really find what I was looking for... selling mine on ebay now to pay for my new phone...
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Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
usho said:
Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
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This is happening to a lot of people. I'm sure the s4 will start having this problem followed by the s5 after a year and some months. Im done with samsung phones until they start using different parts. Actually thinking about the next nexus phone and hack a msata drive into it with a custom vacume formed case. The only reason I haven't owned one is because of the storage limitation. I think a 200+ gigabyte msata strapped to the back would fix that problem.
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Mine started doing the same thing.
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sweeds said:
My power button just started malfunctioning too. I'm on Odin barebones 4.1.2 stock and the problem persists.
It sounds like a lot of people are getting this problem. If you use that knowledge to your advantage, I've heard people convince Samsung it's a manufacturing problem and got it repaired outside of Warranty. The power button itself is sautered onto the motherboard, so unless you really trust a mobile repair company, best option is work directly with Samsung.
That being said, I'm going to look for an Xposed Framework module that can remap the power button.
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usho said:
Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
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Hey guys, mine originally starting messing up on Saturday, and then Sat night and all day Sun is was fine, and now it is doing it again. I even installed a new rom and it is still doing it so now I am convinced it is purely physical and not rom-related. What are you guys going to do?
I have the Wireless Phone Protection for my phone and am thinking about using that to my advantage to get a new device....question is I've never done it before. If I say I have a physical problem with my phone then won't Verizon want it returned? That will make me have to unroot it and bring it back to out of box state which is a big headache. What if I just say I lost it or it got stolen? Am I better off going that route?
EDIT: Also forgot to mention that along with these power button issues my S3 also will not reboot on its own. If I select Reboot (be it from the power button menu, notification pulldown, etc) it will just shut off and not reboot.....but if I yank the battery and put it back in it will then reboot to recovery. Same deal if I do a normal reboot, haven to yank and replace battery. You guys having these issues too?
So a couple of days ago my power button started acting wonkie as well. I would push it and it basically acted sticky. I would push once but it would register twice or as a long press. Either turning the screen on and off or bring up the reboot menu. So I did the xposed button remapping. Worked pretty well, but if I restarted the phone it would do a weird haptic feedback thing every couple of seconds before finally booting up.
So I wasn't satisfied with just living with it being a hardware issue. So I downloaded latest cleanrom to flash from cm11. I rebooted recovery and now it just vibrates every couple of seconds. Would not make it to twrp. It will get to cm Samsung boot screen but then just goes back to vibrating black screen. I took out battery and popped out power button but same results.
Any suggestions? Think power button can be fixed by repair shop or is it time to go back to my trusty droid incredible until I can upgrade.
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luland said:
So a couple of days ago my power button started acting wonkie as well. I would push it and it basically acted sticky. I would push once but it would register twice or as a long press. Either turning the screen on and off or bring up the reboot menu. So I did the xposed button remapping. Worked pretty well, but if I restarted the phone it would do a weird haptic feedback thing every couple of seconds before finally booting up.
So I wasn't satisfied with just living with it being a hardware issue. So I downloaded latest cleanrom to flash from cm11. I rebooted recovery and now it just vibrates every couple of seconds. Would not make it to twrp. It will get to cm Samsung boot screen but then just goes back to vibrating black screen. I took out battery and popped out power button but same results.
Any suggestions? Think power button can be fixed by repair shop or is it time to go back to my trusty droid incredible until I can upgrade.
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It can be fixed. There is also a way of temporarily making the power button work but I don't feel like explaining it again. If you do some searching there are at least 20 threads that have the temp fix in it.
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It can be fixed. There is also a way of temporarily making the power button work but I don't feel like explaining it again. If you do some searching there are at least 20 threads that have the temp fix in it.
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Link to the temp fix please?
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Hey all. I've gotten good responses here before so I figured I'd come back.
Right, well, I've had a Moto G for not too long now, so I was surprised when I woke up this morning and there were huge latency issues on the screen. About a 3/4 of a second delay. It was working perfectly the other day, and I'm confused. My phone has never had root access and still doesn't. The strangest things I've noticed when using a screen tester app is that only when one finger is down is there latency. Two to five fingers is as fast as it should be.
And also, the soft buttons are working fine, the ones down the bottom.
So if anyone can tell me what's wrong, or perhaps what I should do to correct this phone killing problem, I would be thrilled.
(PS. I've noticed a dead pixel at the top right of my scree. Perhaps they are related issues?
Thanks again for any or all help! ^^
-Aro
Have you factory reset the phone yet?
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Have you factory reset the phone yet?
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Mmm... Let me just backup my phone first, I have a lot of highly valued info on it.
I've don soft resets and such, but yeah, I'll factory reset it now.
Arobynn said:
Mmm... Let me just backup my phone first, I have a lot of highly valued info on it.
I've don soft resets and such, but yeah, I'll factory reset it now.
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Its always a good place to start. Could just be some background app data causing havoc.
hmmm...
Mmkay, I reset the phone, and nothing changed. Still getting the latency, even just from moving around the home screen.
Any other suggestions?
Arobynn said:
Mmkay, I reset the phone, and nothing changed. Still getting the latency, even just from moving around the home screen.
Any other suggestions?
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That sounds like it could be a hardware issue then. There wont be any software changes you can make to fix it if a factory reset didn't help.
You may have to warranty the thing.
Is it through a carrier or did you just buy it outright?
Oh man I'm really sorry about this, not replying. I fixed it with factory reset but keeping my SIM in the machine.
Thank you xD
I literally just woke up this morning and its stuck in a bootloop. It constantly reboots, and when i get into recovery mode it waits a second and then selects the thing thats on-screen. Really aggravating. Every time i use recovery i can only get upto either Restart bootloader<Start>Poweroff before it selects whats on screen.... This is the weirdest problem ever it boots into recovery why the F*** would it not let me select what i want. Is there a way to manually do anything through ADB??? Wasnt even flashing anything, was on the same custom rom for a few months.
Extreme solution if better one isn't found: flash factory image
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Sounds like another stuck power button.
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Sounds like another stuck power button.
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Yep its exactly that, someone told me to tap it repeatedly under the power button and it booted up for a few seconds. Im rooted and i cant remember how long ive had it, can i RMA it? Ive still got all my personal stuff on it which puts me in a dilemma :S
GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Yep its exactly that, someone told me to tap it repeatedly under the power button and it booted up for a few seconds. Im rooted and i cant remember how long ive had it, can i RMA it? Ive still got all my personal stuff on it which puts me in a dilemma :S
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If you bought it from Google play, you can RMA it in its current state. LG where you send it if you bought it anywhere else, can be a bit trickier.
You may be able to pull the power button a bit to aliviate the issue
rootSU said:
If you bought it from Google play, you can RMA it in its current state. LG where you send it if you bought it anywhere else, can be a bit trickier.
You may be able to pull the power button a bit to aliviate the issue
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Thanks for that, I did buy it from Google and ive got the box so thats a plus. How will i tell them whats wrong with it, through email or do you have to ring them up and tell them?
GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Thanks for that, I did buy it from Google and ive got the box so thats a plus. How will i tell them whats wrong with it, through email or do you have to ring them up and tell them?
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I've no idea, never had to RMA. Just tell them the truth. It's rebooting and cannot boot into anything because you suspect a stuck power button
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I've no idea, never had to RMA. Just tell them the truth. It's rebooting and cannot boot into anything because you suspect a stuck power button
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Noted, thanks again
No probs