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HARDWARE PROB: D-PAD downwards does not function

Its for sure a hardware problem. Also the Red botton reacts only by hard push. has anyone else had sucha a prob with his BA? Should I open the device and try to clear the buttons area? Any advice how to repair it would be helpful

mobiles said:
Its for sure a hardware problem. Also the Red botton reacts only by hard push. has anyone else had sucha a prob with his BA? Should I open the device and try to clear the buttons area? Any advice how to repair it would be helpful
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I am having a similar problem. The down dpad only responds when extreme force is given to it; along with the row of horizontal pill buttons (ok, ie, mail, today). i took it apart and tried reseating everything to no avail. i also have a new problem, my display is fuzzing up or showing up in 256 color

imfromitaly said:
mobiles said:
Its for sure a hardware problem. Also the Red botton reacts only by hard push. has anyone else had sucha a prob with his BA? Should I open the device and try to clear the buttons area? Any advice how to repair it would be helpful
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I am having a similar problem. The down dpad only responds when extreme force is given to it; along with the row of horizontal pill buttons (ok, ie, mail, today). i took it apart and tried reseating everything to no avail. i also have a new problem, my display is fuzzing up or showing up in 256 color
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There was a chap on here (fluffcat1) that sold parts for the m2000. I have bought from him and can recommended.
You can buy just the new button pad for the bottom of the pda for less than £10 and then just make sure you have the correct TORQ screwdrivers to open it up.
Matt

the down button on the keypad sucks on all b.a's
i was lucky enough to get a good one that theres barely anything wrong with.
the only problem is wen i press down and right (to get the 45 degree south west direction) it doesnt work, or its VERY hard to get to work, but thats it.
i think its just that the b.a down button sux, probly a design fault.
also check maybe a bit of dirt lodged itself under there. this happened to me once andi've only had my b.a for 2 weeks!
gah they shud really put more time into designing these things, i'll never forget my v3 <3

is this a common problem?

my xda2s recently experienced a problem which consists of the volume bar keep going up and up making the 'end' noise repeatedly, and if say the volume bar on the side were to be pressed down, it would go down n go up again...
secondly, the power button is not functioning well, it can turn the phone on by clicking it once (as usual) it can turn the backlight on and off by holding it (as usual) but it wont turn off by pressing it once, or anything...
help please, thank you

doesn't happen with any of my 3... sounds like you've got them there problems.

pYroboy,
let me know if you found the resolution. My problems are similar to yours...
Thanks.

doesnt happen to any of my two BA...
try opening up your unit and clean up the contacts.

I did open it, but could not figure out which contact to clean. Power switch is sooooooo freaking small, I did not figure out what I could clean there, it seems that it is 2x4mm in size soldered for good to the board. Same about volume rocker/switch on the side.
How is it possible to clean them??? I could not figure out what could be cleaned there without detaching the switches from the board.
Does anyone sell these parts? Maybe it would be easier (although not easy also because they are so freaking small) to replace them??
Guys, need advice from you... from the ones who fooled around with similar parts...
Thanks.

try an air brush. or a fast evaporating contact cleaner.
just make sure you apply enough pressure not to blow the sensitive parts away.
*just becareful

OK. Thanks. I'll try that. But where do you people get that stuff. Do they sell it in electronics stores, or I need to look someplace else?
I need to do something anyway, because today I can't turn ON. I used timeout of 1 minute on battery power to power it OFF. But not being able to turn the whole thing ON really put me down....
Is there any program to remap Power On/Off button to Recorder or Media Player buttons on the side? They are all 3 the same switches. If it would be possible, I'd get by using one of those buttons.... Just running out of freaking ideas here....

contact cleaners can be found in your local radioshack(i.e. electronics or computer botique/shops).
regarding the power button i think that is hardwired to be the only powerbutton for the unit. sad to say you cant map it to powerup your BA.

pecq said:
OK. Thanks. I'll try that. But where do you people get that stuff. Do they sell it in electronics stores, or I need to look someplace else?
I need to do something anyway, because today I can't turn ON. I used timeout of 1 minute on battery power to power it OFF. But not being able to turn the whole thing ON really put me down....
Is there any program to remap Power On/Off button to Recorder or Media Player buttons on the side? They are all 3 the same switches. If it would be possible, I'd get by using one of those buttons.... Just running out of freaking ideas here....
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Assuming you have the button lock enabled you can wake it up by receiving a phone call, and then disable the button lock and use any button to wake up/turn on the device. This is not the most elegant solution, but if cleaning fails to fix it then it may be your only option.

Am I the only one who hits the power button with the keyboard extended?

I've searched but I can't find any one else complaing of this problem and it's driving me nuts.
When I extend the hardware keyboard to type, my finger often rests on the power button turning the screen off. Does anybody else face this problem? Is there a registry hack to disable the power button with the keyboard is extended?
Thanks

jejeje
Same problem!!!! so frustating!!!

No you are not the only one; I also have this problem; when writing message I touch the power button accidentally a lot and the only solution I could come to was to be more delicate and careful when writing
Regards,

Yep, same problem here! A really silly thing to miss - there's not particular reason to not have the power button on the right at the top rather than the left.

all the time....
very frustrating,
..then I try to open it, wait a fraction of a second, click it again for fear of not having pushed it enough the first time, ... and I end with the sleep mode on the phone , .. so I click it firmly for a third time finally opening it..
timewaste...

same here

nickpope said:
I've searched but I can't find any one else complaing of this problem and it's driving me nuts.
When I extend the hardware keyboard to type, my finger often rests on the power button turning the screen off. Does anybody else face this problem? Is there a registry hack to disable the power button with the keyboard is extended?
Thanks
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Happens to a lot of people. Don't know how you search but:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535229
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=520834

same here

me too
Add me to the list.
Which makes me wonder, why didn't they place the power on the top right?

Well at least I know I'm not the only one. Still hoping someone smarter than I will find a way to disable it with keyboard extended
@vdKarel I would have found those post had I spelt button with two t's (#)

I wasnt having that problem until today actually. lol. funny you bring it up. After discovering this, i did find it a little inconvenient where the power button is placed

happens some times. probably the power button would be better in an other place

I do it all the time as well

I use it a lot (pages and pages of word documents written on it in the train) and it doesn't happen...
When I hold mine with keyboard extended, my left index (which is the one which could hit the power button) is folded, so it hits the left side of the keyboard "block" (no power button here) then goes under the screen "block" and holds the back of the keyboard "block", it doesn't press the left side of the screen "block" (which has the power button).
Do you guys have your left index extended for it to be along the left of both the keyboard "block" and the screen "block" ? I don't see how else you could be hitting the power button...
PS : On my TyTN, this allowed me to turn the PPC on and off with the left index tip with the keyboard out, this avoided waiting for the screen to rotate when I knew I'd wand it in landscape when I trun back on.

This only happens to me after ALMOST completing a 900 word e-mail . . .

You're not alone, and there are fixes for this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=553784
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563592

For the Tilt 2, this doesn't happen. I don't know if it's because of WM 6.5 or something AT&T implemented or what, but the power button has no effect when the keyboard is out. I actually want to find a way to enable that because at times I want to put it in sleep mode while open.

Why do you have your fingers extended?? I never have this problem in my TP2!

ai6908 said:
Why do you have your fingers extended?? I never have this problem in my TP2!
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um.. to hold it securely?

ummm, not to sound like a smart a$$ but this has been covered n many threads previously...i believe that if u search for "disable power button" ull find ur answer...its a simple .cab installation that disables the power button when the keyboard is extended...hope that helps and good luck

Volume up, Menu and Home key not working!

Hello everybody! My htc desire's physical buttons(actually just the volume up, home and menu keys) don't work...I press them but nothing happens. Well, they work sometimes, but when they don't I reboot my phone, randomly press some buttons, and they start working again. I just don't know what the fault is. Im on MildWild CM 4.3. I think the same problem was with other firmwares too. Can you please solve my problem?

If your device is under warrantly just send it to htc. It's a hardware problem, not something that you can solve with a script.

Ah, so you're telling me there's nothing that can be done to repair it? Cuz, my device isn't in warranty(I just replaced the casing)...

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Ah, so you're telling me there's nothing that can be done to repair it? Cuz, my device isn't in warranty(I just replaced the casing)...
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I don't know.. I don't want to be pessimistic, maybe you can search for similar problem in internet and a possibile solution, not just for Desire but in general for devices that have hardkeys. Maybe like use a spray for electric contacts while device is turn off and wait that it's completly dry before turn it on. Good luck.

I can't remember it, but I think that this problem appeared only after I got my casing changed. Could the technician have done something wrong? Can I send it to the man that changed the casing?

It's probably just some dust that gathered underneath the buttons. I had the same problem with the volume down button. I used a needle to clean the dust around it, and then it worked perfectly.

I dont think it could be due to the dust, cuz there are three buttons which simultaneously stop and start working... It's a bit strange tho..

I have issues now with my power button. It's unreliable... that is, the button sometimes works. Sometimes when I press it, it opens the shutdown menu..
Started all of a sudden. Not sure how that happened... and it's out of warrenty for 4 months now..

That is why I use Button Savior

Same!
I am getting the same problem. I have replaced the keypad flex with a new one and still getting the same issue. It would start working randomly like if I open the browser and open many tabs, then it would work. Funny thing is that they would not even work when I go in recovery.
My desire is 2yrs old now but I still love it.

shricker said:
I am getting the same problem. I have replaced the keypad flex with a new one and still getting the same issue. It would start working randomly like if I open the browser and open many tabs, then it would work. Funny thing is that they would not even work when I go in recovery.
My desire is 2yrs old now but I still love it.
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Same problem here.
Mostly happens with Home and menù. Less often with volume buttons.
For now I'm using the "button saviour app" workaround, but if is something hardware I will know it very soon... (made a copy of my rom on a friend's HTC Desire)

thedarkcoder said:
I can't remember it, but I think that this problem appeared only after I got my casing changed. Could the technician have done something wrong? Can I send it to the man that changed the casing?
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thedarkcoder said:
I dont think it could be due to the dust, cuz there are three buttons which simultaneously stop and start working... It's a bit strange tho..
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All three buttons simultaneously! Buttons usually fail gradually one by one and drive you mad finally. I would put my money on the keypads being misaligned during whatever you got done with casing. Take it back to him.
If its some kind of misalignment no amount of sprays will help.
BTW I use zmooth for button conservation

use soft key instead
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda premium

I had the same issues : menu button working randomly, had to press very strong on up/down volume buttons.
I've dismounted my phone (using this : http://www.formymobile.co.uk/desiredisassembly.php ), and I saw that there were a lot of dust, hairs.. I tried to clean up/down volume buttons the best way I could, and they both work so much better now! Not totally perfect though.
By the way, I noticed that there was a lot of compressed dust in micro-USB connector and was able to remove it fully (thing I couldn't do without dismounting phone).
I didn't want to go farther to access menu/home buttons because I didn't have time and Menu button works quite OK.

I have the same issue here with the volume buttons they tend to get unresponsive and unreliable.
Even though all the parts were renewed since six months ago, the volume buttons are probably bad designed?

Holland1994D said:
I have the same issue here with the volume buttons they tend to get unresponsive and unreliable.
Even though all the parts were renewed since six months ago, the volume buttons are probably bad designed?
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You could replace bad working buttons' functions with others'. My volume down isn't working, so I made my search button act like a vol down.

Buy the new one
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[Q] Power Button

Hi there,
i have a question belonging to the power button. It doesn´t give really got feedback for me. I don´t really "feel" when it is really pressed, because of a "klick" or just the pressure (like the volume Button). Also I think it is just fixed at one point, because it´s somehow groggy and doesn´t go even "into the phone" when pressing it. It is difficult to explain :silly:
What is your experience?

Same experience you made for me.
Luckily I could care less as long as it gets the job done.
Besides home double tap is the more comfortable way to turn it on anyway.
Sent from my X9006 using Tapatalk

EnormoDerClown said:
Hi there,
i have a question belonging to the power button. It doesn´t give really got feedback for me. I don´t really "feel" when it is really pressed, because of a "klick" or just the pressure (like the volume Button). Also I think it is just fixed at one point, because it´s somehow groggy and doesn´t go even "into the phone" when pressing it. It is difficult to explain :silly:
What is your experience?
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exactly the same.. volume buttons are fine while the power button feedback is horrible!! i was so disappointed at begin but now more or less i'm getting used to!
but i can't understand why is not as stable as the other one! On oppo forum some people has also volume buttone in the same conditions..