i have never had a phone that the battery cannot be removed, what happens if a program or the os locks? how do you reset it. i now have a dell streak and today it would not turn on and i had to remove the battery to get it to boot up. is there a button combo that forces a reboot?
thanks
Hold the power button for ~10 seconds, simulates a battery pull & forces a reset.
thanks! i think i will pull the trigger and get it
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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.
My power button is totally dead. I'm currently using the PGM app which works fine for wake. But with a totally dead/unresponsive power button I can only shut down via battery pull, and it reboots as soon as I reinstall battery. And I am not certain that it will reboot/turn on every to e if I continue to pull battery for shut down. I have downloaded Quick Boot app and could use it to shut down, but if it works then I don't know how to turn device back on. Any ideas much appreciated. I've ordered a new power button flex cable and will probably attempt the replacement when it arrives if I can't find another acceptable solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830992
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.
My CM 12 rom will freeze with the screen off. Is there a way to reset the phone without pulling the battery?
Verizon variant.
I never found a way. e.e
It does reset "sometimes" if you hold the power button for upto 10 seconds, not eveytime though depending on freezing circumstances.
@blindguyinanorgy I have a vs985 and it'll reset to avoid a battery pull if you press vol down + power and hold for @ 20-25 seconds. It'll seem like forever so count it down. I don't think the d855(posters above) has that option.
Another stupid idea/option, espevially when the pwr button is exactly where a right handed person has their thumb when holding the phone.
Or a setting that lets me change the reboot delay time to 40 seconds or more
Since the battery is non-removable, this is the only way to reset the phone if it locks up without waiting for the battery to run dry.
Thank god for that if the phone freezes or anything. It's possible for a good reason.