So I am finally ready to ask for advice, ever since I rooted my phone, my back button has been wacky. At first it wouldn't work every time I hit , then it would try to catch up later, say go back to beginning of browser session if that is what I was on. And then it quit working all together. I tried the qemu hardware code in build prop and it did nothing. The flash able zip worked to put navbar on so I have the virtual back now, but is there any way to get it back, or is it a hardware issue I am stuck with? I used lgpst to go back to zv7 and that didn't fix it either. Is there something else to try? Thanks in advance.
Mine has been weird lately too. I thought i was just being crazy. Lol.
What browser are you using?
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I use boat browser, but my back button doesn't work on anything.
ok so i rooted my phone and went through a couple of roms and i decided to go back to stock and i noticed that when i hold down the power button the power menu comes up as it should. when i click to turn off the phone a menu supposed to come up and say something to the effect of your phone is about to turn off do you want to continue. thats not the case on my phone. it just shuts down with out asking. its not a big deal but i guess im too picky, but it really kinda bugs me. does any one have any clue on how to fix this. thanks
I believe you only get that continue option when "restarting" not "power off"....
Let me double check
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I dont the continue option on either one
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I have a Rooted s3 using Cm nighties. Ever since I rooted it this weird bug would happened. Every time I'd press the home button or any icon it would execute that action as if I was press and holding I have to reboot my phone to get rid of it but it keeps coming back it used to be every now and then but now it happens everyday after I reboot it I'm tired of having to reboot my phone and I really don't know what the cause of this is... Help!
Use the search tool, please. This is a known issue. Do a full wipe.
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I'm on Liquid Smooth v2.1, Android 4.2.2. No custom kernel, just whatever it comes with. Been running fine for months.
This morning I dropped my phone in my car (a few inches drop) and it went into a bootloop. It eventually booted into Android and I backed up all my apps and texts to my SD card. But afterwards it went into another bootloop and now its stuck there. It will start booting, and then restart (most of the time before the boot animation even comes up). I need to get into recovery so I can restore an older Nandroid or maybe try wiping the cache. I have tried using power/volumeup/home, but it bootloops by the time recovery is starting up. ADB on my computer will not pick up the phone. Sometimes for a few seconds it will show up, but it has an "offline" next to it and by the time I enter "adb reboot recovery" it says no device found.
If I take out the battery for 30 seconds, it makes it pretty far into the boot.
What steps should I take next? I know ODIN is last resort, but I'd prefer not to go there. Thanks guys.
I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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aamir123 said:
I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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Wow. That sounds like a possibility. Dropped from my lap to my cupholder, could've landed on the button. I'll try it in a bit.
aamir123 said:
I have a similar problem I think the power button may be the issue, when it's boring up tap on the power button with your bail as you would on a table. Also try to put your sideways with power button down that may help.
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I was able to get it to boot for a few seconds, and the power menu kept on coming up until it died. Does the phone turn off if you hold down the power button for a long time? Seems like I gotta get that fixed. I'll try the sideways suggestion in a bit.
Yeah, if you hold power and never let go, it'll reboot over and over. It's intentionally like that so if you ever have the system lock up you can still do a kind of hard reset. (Better than a battery pull, though that can still be necessary if you want it to just turn off)
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DocHoliday77 said:
Yeah, if you hold power and never let go, it'll reboot over and over. It's intentionally like that so if you ever have the system lock up you can still do a kind of hard reset. (Better than a battery pull, though that can still be necessary if you want it to just turn off)
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That's what I thought. Anyone know the difficulty of repairing this myself? Or a cost estimate? Holding the button at an angle seems to make it work for a bit. Sideways didn't help.
I've heard there's some YouTube vids that may help. I've seen a few people say they were able to do it themselves.
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this seems like a similar job for the s2, I would imagine that the s3 is very much like this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xMMn1DRWs
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I've heard there's some YouTube vids that may help. I've seen a few people say they were able to do it themselves.
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this seems like a similar job for the s2, I would imagine that the s3 is very much like this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0xMMn1DRWs
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Anyone know if I were to remove the power button completely, would the phone work without it? I don't really need it, and removing it would make the phone usable. Just wanna make sure the phone doesn't run a check or something. I'll order a new power button in the spare time and install it later.
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Anyone know if I were to remove the power button completely, would the phone work without it? I don't really need it, and removing it would make the phone usable. Just wanna make sure the phone doesn't run a check or something. I'll order a new power button in the spare time and install it later.
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it'll prolly work but if phone shuts off not sure if you will be able to turn it back on without a power button, what I did for the time being is get the phone of and basically tap on the side of the phone with the power button towards the floor kind of like trying to get gravity to push the power swith inside to be back to the normal position. Then don't touch the power button, there are apps in the play store that can function as your power button.
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it'll prolly work but if phone shuts off not sure if you will be able to turn it back on without a power button, what I did for the time being is get the phone of and basically tap on the side of the phone with the power button towards the floor kind of like trying to get gravity to push the power swith inside to be back to the normal position. Then don't touch the power button, there are apps in the play store that can function as your power button.
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Yeah, I watched a YouTube video and he fixed it like that. So I basically hammered the button as hard as I could with my nail for a minute straight and now it doesn't bother me anymore until you press it. I can live without the power button, but I'm probably going to have to remove/replace it since I can't risk bumping into the button on accident. Thanks for the help though!
Does anyone know of a method to turn the phone on without the power button? I know on my Nexus One you could Insert the battery while it was charging to force a reboot.
Afaik you'll just have to restart every time till it's fixed.
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Afaik you'll just have to restart every time till it's fixed.
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Yes, but how would I go about restarting it without the button?
There's apps in the play store. Button savior might be one. Can't recall names for sure.
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There's apps in the play store. Button savior might be one. Can't recall names for sure.
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My bad, I meant starting the phone from powered off state.
I honestly don't know of any way to do that....sorry.
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My wife's s3 shut itself down a few days ago and now it's stuck in a boot loop. It was on rooted stock 4.1.
It will not fully boot into the system, trying to get into recovery will barely let you see the recovery screen before it cuts off, and getting into download mode will turn off after about 20 sec.
I'd love to be able to savage some things from the device, but I'm lost as to what I could try now.
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Sounds like a faulty/stuck power button. A common thing these days. Open the device and play with the switch a little. Ive seen several people say this fixed it temporarily. Doesn't work for everyone though. If it is the button, the only permanent fix is to replace the part. Only a few bucks online and I dont believe its too difficult to do.
Thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately it didn't help me. Took it apart, physical button actuates fine, switch underneath seems to click and return ok. Blew compressed air to be sure nothing's making it stick, button and switch. When I got it back together, except for actually having recovery load up for a few sec (once), it is behaving the same way.
Seeing as I have no soldering experience or equipment and we have already got my wife another device, I may just call it dead.
Thanks again for the help.
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Sorry I cant be of better help for that. If you want to do a quick test though, just so you know for sure....
Take out the battery, then put it back in and wait a few moments. If it turns on by itself, its almost definitely a power switch gone bad.