Hello and good morning,
I have bought my HTC Desire HD 5 months aggo, and my volume button has been messing me up alot. I didnt care at first cause it would sometimes just ignore my press on button +/- and sometimes it would work. But now it's rly annoying, I have to push button so hard just to increase or decrease volume of my HTC.
So my question is:
- Is it a bigger hardware problem or just the plastic button?
- how long would i aprox be out of phone if i take it to warranity (got 2 year)?
- has anyone had this problem before and solved it?
p.s the phone has never hit ground, no repairs, no roots. nothing. same as it came from factory.
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Hello,
I have a problem with my HTC desire and would greatly appreciate any help. So, this is what happens:i've had the phone for about1 mo.th and had no probl until about 5 days ago when the pjone started acting as if the HOME, MENU and VOLUME UP keys were being pressed,but i didn't press any of them. Sometimes it happened for minutes. Then, it changed,if i pressed the home button, the phone would bring up the volume and the keypad, if i pressed the menu button, it would act as if i would hold down the home button for a few seconds and also, would bring up tje volume. Also, when this happens, the volume down button won't work. Very few times everything works fine sincd the probls started. I factory reseted the phone twice but no change. Everything else,calls, texting, internet works fine, but since the home button is being activated so often by itself, it will close the texting or the internet. No water damage. I dropped it once, but from e very small height.
What shall I do? Can anyone help? Has anyone had the same problem? I really like this phone.
Thank you
1st time I heard of this...
Suggest you to rule out any 3rd party applications.
If you still can't figure it out, you should be taking advantage of your warranty...
celcerut said:
Hello,
I have a problem with my HTC desire and would greatly appreciate any help. So, this is what happens:i've had the phone for about1 mo.th and had no probl until about 5 days ago when the pjone started acting as if the HOME, MENU and VOLUME UP keys were being pressed,but i didn't press any of them. Sometimes it happened for minutes. Then, it changed,if i pressed the home button, the phone would bring up the volume and the keypad, if i pressed the menu button, it would act as if i would hold down the home button for a few seconds and also, would bring up tje volume. Also, when this happens, the volume down button won't work. Very few times everything works fine sincd the probls started. I factory reseted the phone twice but no change. Everything else,calls, texting, internet works fine, but since the home button is being activated so often by itself, it will close the texting or the internet. No water damage. I dropped it once, but from e very small height.
What shall I do? Can anyone help? Has anyone had the same problem? I really like this phone.
Thank you
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sound suspiciously like water damage to me
Hi, I appreciate your prompt reply to my post. I disabled any third-party applications and also, it hasn;t been water damaged, I was careful this shouldn't happen. however, it still continues to act strangely. I found someone describing the same issues with their phone while googling this malfunctioning
If you can think of anything how I can solve this, please let me know,
Cheers,
tim
Initially when pressing the back button on my desire, a large majority of the time, it would register it correctly (i.e. do the operation associated with the back button), irrespective of my finger placement as long as I apply a low amount of pressure.
Now, I find that a lot more key presses on the back button are lost. I have to press much more harder / deeper to improve the chance the keypress registers. This is the second time I've encountered this and the third hardware fault I've had:
Fault #1: headphone jack not working, music continues to play through speaker (repaired)
Fault #2: back button doesn't always register key presses (repaired)
Fault #3: back button doesn't always register key presses (going to have to be repaired again, sigh).
I've searched the forums but haven't found anyone else mentioning this problem. Has anyone else experienced this issue at all? Or have I got crummy luck and gotten an HTC Lemon?
I have the exact same thing. Only started recently though. It takes a hard press sometimes, and other times if I press hard it's like a double button push.
You aren't alone. Lol
Cheers rolfd. Least I know I don't have the "touch of death".
It's definitely fixable cos I've handed it in for repair and it's come back working. My concern is more if it continues to re-occur. Guess I'll have to wait and see...
You are not alone about this problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=778793
Both mine Menu and Back is not working properly. Got send it in for service and still havent get it back yet.
*Update* My phone got repaired.
Back button now works as expected. Fingers crossed it stays that way...
I have just had the unfortunate wake up of my Desire power button not working, wonderful way to start the day.
I'm going to take it down to Telstra today and try and get it fixed under warranty, I don't believe that I have dropped it or let any water into it, but I'm worried that they'll say there is water damage and it won't be fixed under warranty (I found a few forums saying similar things)
What I'm hoping is an app or hack that will allow me to use another button as the power button. It is rooted (T-Mod) but I can't get into the bootup screen as I can't hold the power and volume button.
Any ideas or am I stuffed?
Hi there,
I bout a G3 beat for my sister a year ago, it had no problems back then but it's been about 3 month now that the screen wont wake up after pressing power button or double tapping on the screen itself... really, it randomly wakes by doing so, rarely I must say.
She thinks it is probably due to a failure of hardware, you know, because she'd dropped the phone several times, but I think maybe there something wrong with the software, you know, because its not only the power button that's not working, double tap does not work neither...
Bye the way volume rockers have got some issues too, cant seem to change volume until you press them several times.
So, what do you think guys? Is is the hardware, or the software?
Hi,
I have a strange issue with my HTC one m8. I am getting a warning 'to restart your phone press and hold the power and volume up buttons for 10 seconds'. The strange thing is that my button is not stucks, it still 'clicks'.
I have gone through this forum and found many other people facing similar issues. I have tried remapping keys in my device and disabling the power button. Even though this has solved the problem of the warning showing, the phone does behave abnormally sometimes.
Is there any way to disable power button from kernal and remap it to say volume button. or is there any other simple solutions to this problem. Please help i really can't afford a new phone right now.
Thanks a lot
Okay. So i have managed to solve the issue without any software optimizations
Coming to the point, what you need is isopropyl alcohol (commonly known as rubbing alcohol, surgical spirit, medical spirit). I got a very small syringe and injected minute amounts to the sides of power button. I injected small quantities into both sides of the power button. Now, i started pressing the power button, rocking it left and right for about an hour periodically making sure the solution was well inside.
After this i left the phone unattended to dry for about 12 hours. After that the power button was back to normal. I was suffering with this problem for more than three months, i didn't want to try this solution earlier. So if you are suffering from similar issue, i am sure this method will help.
Thanks