Is there any way to force turn off the samsung epic 4g without pulling the battery? I did search and came up with nothing. I know that on my Samsung Fascinate you hold the volume down and power button and it turns it off even if it is frozen. Is there any way to do this on the Epic?
think the only way is a battery pull. i've tried various key presses too to no avail.
Darn. I was hoping there was a way to restart it. It comes in handy when testing voltage settings. Just a pain pulling the battery anytime it freezes
beezie42 said:
Is there any way to force turn off the samsung epic 4g without pulling the battery? I did search and came up with nothing. I know that on my Samsung Fascinate you hold the volume down and power button and it turns it off even if it is frozen. Is there any way to do this on the Epic?
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if you press vol. up instead of down like when you go into cwmit will reboot but i think that is it that i have seen. so it would be vol. up camera and the power button all pressed at the same time.
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On my SGS I could press volume down + power button for 10 second and the phone would reboot. This does not seem to work for the Nexus.. Is there any way to soft reboot the phone to avoid doing a battery pull? (removing and putting back the back cover is tedious!)
Anyone know?
Unfortunately, no.
Since power+vol down is also the screenshot function, I will try power+vol up if/when my GN freezes up the next time.
Long pressing power for 10-20 seconds does not work either.
I'm also looking forward for such a tweak. My touch screen sometimes freeze and I need to force reboot it.
Well that's just a symptom.
One month old Nexus stock 4.1.1.
When I touch the power button the normal screen with the lock comes on but it doesn't respond to touch. It just times out and goes back to standby.
If I hold the power button the normal window shows up with Power off etc, same deal no response to touch.
The only way to solve problem was to remove and reinstall battery.
Is this an indication of something bad about to happen or what?
Any guidance is appreciated.
Boltface said:
Well that's just a symptom.
One month old Nexus stock 4.1.1.
When I touch the power button the normal screen with the lock comes on but it doesn't respond to touch. It just times out and goes back to standby.
If I hold the power button the normal window shows up with Power off etc, same deal no response to touch.
The only way to solve problem was to remove and reinstall battery.
Is this an indication of something bad about to happen or what?
Any guidance is appreciated.
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i wouldn't mess with it anymore, i would return it asap.
My phones been turning on and off because I dropped it, and now it seems like the power button/ on/off screen button is getting pressed down all the time. Is there a simple fix for this?
lee714 said:
My phones been turning on and off because I dropped it, and now it seems like the power button/ on/off screen button is getting pressed down all the time. Is there a simple fix for this?
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I've dropped my phone a couple of times and it works normal
Try blowing on the power button really hard
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Got a problem. My S3 won't boot up. I'm running AOKP, not sure which version.
When I pull the battery and put it back in, the Samsung logo flashes once, like it's trying to boot, without me ever touching the power button, then it goes black. I went to the cell phone store and tried with another battery. Same result.
I've been having problems with the power button sticking internally recently. No evidence of sticking from the outside, but the power menu randomly appears, and the phone would randomly shut off. I don't have a lock on my phone, so I overused the power button a lot.
Is it supposed to turn on like that after you pop in a fully working battery, or does that mean the power button is being held in place? Could someone confirm what happens if the power button on the S3 is held down continuously after you turn it on?
Also might be a software or flash problem from too many random reboots.
Hopefully the motherboard is not toast.
It's likely that you are just having a stuck power button. Normally if you just hold it down, first the power menu will appear and if you continue to hold it down, the phone will go black and try to restart.
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It's likely that you are just having a stuck power button. Normally if you just hold it down, first the power menu will appear and if you continue to hold it down, the phone will go black and try to restart.
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Hi all
wondering if someone might be able to give me hand
my phone is rooted and am running CM10 stable and was working fine for about 3 months.
this morning i went to use the calculator and then the phone rebooted, and will not come back up.
I keeps viberating every coupel fo seconds. Tried to hold down power button but nothing happens. yanked battery and and reboot and i see the samsung slapscreen then it goes back to viberating
I tried to yank the battery, while holding down the power volume up/down to get into recovery but no luck. tried to yank battery and hold down volumne up/ down trying to get into download mode but also no luck
wondering if there might something i can try to get my phone back working
take care
i tried to take the phone apart to see if the power button was stuck but still now luck
Sounds like a power button issue. Its not that it gets stuck physically, the power switch gets messed up and acts as if its being held down. You can replace the switch or try a ghetto fix. I had to remove the power button from the case from my brothers phone. I took it out then plugged the hole with it by taping it on from the outside.
There are a few ROMs out there that allow you to use alternate buttons to turn off the phone and use volume keys to wake it up. So you will only need the power button to turn on the phone when its off completely. For my brothers phone I use a toothpick since I removed the power button.
It is just beginning to mess up on my phone bit it wasn't a severe enough case for me to remove the power button.
I would recommend trying to fidget with the button a bit, trying to see if you can get it out of the power loop (endless vibrating). What I do is pull the battery and press the button a few times. I even flick that corner of the phone a few times. Then I put the batter back in and see if it stopped cycling. If not I try to press the button a few more times and or give it a flick or two with the battery in. There seems to be no direct method that works but it eventually stabalizes.
If it does stabalize, I'd recommend testing to see how sensitive it is. If you can't put it in your pocket or even the slightest movement makes it cycle. I'd say you need to remove the power button or have the power switch replaced. If it stabilizes I would just get a ROM with the options I mentioned and stop touching the power button.