I was updating roms and doing my usual fiddling when i noticed that my power button was starting to give me issues. I noticed it specifically after updating CWM from 6.0.3.1 to 6.0.4.3 (i think, from memory).
Now it will randomly flick on and off, bring up the pewer menu and even shut itself down without me touching it. It seems t be overly sensitive and not very sensitive at the same time.
Any hope this can be a software issue and not a hardware one? I've dont lots of searching but i havent found anything more than the possibility of it being a broken power button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wanted to keep this phone till the S5, but i may be forced to go to the S4 or note 3 if theres no way to fix it....
aussie88 said:
I was updating roms and doing my usual fiddling when i noticed that my power button was starting to give me issues. I noticed it specifically after updating CWM from 6.0.3.1 to 6.0.4.3 (i think, from memory).
Now it will randomly flick on and off, bring up the pewer menu and even shut itself down without me touching it. It seems t be overly sensitive and not very sensitive at the same time.
Any hope this can be a software issue and not a hardware one? I've dont lots of searching but i havent found anything more than the possibility of it being a broken power button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wanted to keep this phone till the S5, but i may be forced to go to the S4 or note 3 if theres no way to fix it....
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The constant use of the power button damaged it. Its a hardware problem. Get it repaired.
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Issue: Power button won't turn screen off. Either it doesn't respond to the button push at all or it treats it as a long press and will pop up the phone options menu. Power button wakes phone just fine. Also, if I boot into recovery while experiencing this, not all power button pushes register within recovery (ouch).
It's weird because I experienced this for the first time like 2 months ago a few hours after flashing a Tiamat kernel (actual kernel may have had nothing to do with it), but after fiddling around with my phone it started working again.
Well, it started happening again on Saturday using CM 7.0.3.1 w/ GoDm0dE v5. I got it to work again by doing a factory reset, then restoring a backup. Well, it came back last night and persisted after another factory reset. It was very consistent today -- for hours it would either do nothing after pressing power or it would pop up phone options. Finally, a did a factory reset within CM7 and also within Amon-RA 2.3 and then restored a backup from yesterday and the power button functioned properly for about 1.5 hours.
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
ROM: CM 7.0.3.1
Kernel: Stock
Recovery: Amon_Ra 2.3
HW: 003
Never had that experience. Could be a number of things. It might be the Kernel/ROM mix, the Kernel itself, the ROM itself...But I would think that if it was any of these things, I would have heard about it by now from other users.
It could be something as simple as a short in your power button or the connections underneath it. Might just short out at the right times to make you think it is something you are flashing. Try shooting some compressed air in there (might help).
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Never had that experience. Could be a number of things. It might be the Kernel/ROM mix, the Kernel itself, the ROM itself...But I would think that if it was any of these things, I would have heard about it by now from other users.
It could be something as simple as a short in your power button or the connections underneath it. Might just short out at the right times to make you think it is something you are flashing. Try shooting some compressed air in there (might help).
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Thanks -- I actually tried the compressed air. I'm thinking it's hardware. It seems to have gotten worse in the past hour.
im having the same issue. i googled it earlier and it seems like theres alot of people have that same problem. its looking like a hardware issue. I can tell you one thing tho its pissing me off.
shdwboy said:
im having the same issue. i googled it earlier and it seems like theres alot of people have that same problem. its looking like a hardware issue. I can tell you one thing tho its pissing me off.
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I unrooted and it actually started to do the same, but when waking the device. Brought it into Sprint and getting a replacement on Wednesday.
Had this exact same issue up until a few days ago. I took a needle and went around the power button front and back, something unjammed I guess and now it works like a charm. I've also had this with a software problem. My power button wouldn't work, even in recovery. I restored a nandroid and this fixed it. Hope this helps! Best of luck.
I had the same issue. Sprint said it wasn't the button but the board not responding to the button. Got a new phone.
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For about the last 2 months my sister's Incredible has been acting incredibly wonky.
1. It is getting the infamous low application data message when she has plenty of storage.
2. The track ball does its own thing and turns pages by its self on the home screen.
3. The Power button is hit and miss. This thread explains it very well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091064
So what is going on guys? Its on Stock with unrevoked Root... No Custom roms or custom kernals. Any help for the above problems is much appreciated.
Sounds like the phone is just going downhill. Hope she has insurance
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For about the last 2 months my sister's Incredible has been acting incredibly wonky.
1. It is getting the infamous low application data message when she has plenty of storage.
2. The track ball does its own thing and turns pages by its self on the home screen.
3. The Power button is hit and miss. This thread explains it very well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091064
So what is going on guys? Its on Stock with unrevoked Root... No Custom roms or custom kernals. Any help for the above problems is much appreciated.
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The first can easily be solved by one of the awesome custom roms available, the other two seem to be hardware problems.
Hope this helps
I would back up her SMS (use something like SMS backup & restore. Doesn't require root) to her SD card and then back up her SD card. Make sure her contacts are all synced to google and not the phone and then do a restore of the phone. Bringing it back to stock and factory will help you make sure if it is a hardware issue or a software issue. If it is a software issue, root the phone and install another ROM.
Sometimes the trackball gets dirty. Blow it clean and that may solve at lest one problem. Might help the power button too.
OK, now it is really bad. Pressing the power button does absolutely nothing. It does not bring up the lockscreen! Is there a root tweak where the trackball can turn the phone on? She is having to plug her phone in to wake the screen up!
Larry94 said:
OK, now it is really bad. Pressing the power button does absolutely nothing. It does not bring up the lockscreen! Is there a root tweak where the trackball can turn the phone on? She is having to plug her phone in to wake the screen up!
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Yup, I know CM7 has it and I'm sure other Sense roms have it as well.
Howdy,
Got a weird issue on my desire - basically the power button keeps registering a press even when I'm not touching it. Fault seems to come and go a little, it'll happen for a day but then stop doing it for a couple of weeks.
It's definitely not rom related since it'll happen inside recovery - it'll even turn on the phone if i've shut it down.
Just wondering if anyone has had this, whether it's an expensive fix etc... any info would be great!
Cheers,
Matt
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About three weeks ago my launch Epic 4G Touch got its power button stuck on. In the weeks prior I had had occasional glitches where pressing the power button would turn on the flashlight (an AOKP feature where if you hold the power button from off, it turns on the light), or when pressing it to put it in sleep I'd get the power-off menu. And occasionally it would get worse, where pressing the power button would lead to the entire phone shutting off and restarting after a few seconds, as though I had held the power button down the whole time. Anyway, as I said, it finally reached the point where the button was apparently stuck sending the On signal the entire time. And it was clearly hardware-level, as if I'd pull the battery and put it back in it would INSTANTLY power itself back on.
I took it to the Sprint store, they reviewed it, couldn't fix it, and ordered me a replacement which arrived a few days later. I've had that replacement for about two weeks now without any hardware problems. I did switch to AOKP again, but I've had no issues whatsoever.
Until today, when it progressed through all the above-mentioned symptoms and all the way to stuck ON permanently, in the span of a few hours.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any logical reason to suspect this could be a fault of the sofware I've installed? I've never heard this symptom before, which makes me think it's extremely unlikely or others would have caused it, plus the power-on from battery implies to me this can't possibly be a software issue. But I want to be sure before I get it replaced yet AGAIN and cause it again, or have the store try to blame my custom ROM (they never said a word last time).
Help?
EDIT: Pretty confident I just confirmed it's a hardware problem. I booted into CWM to try to make a backup so I could flash to stock and confirm it wasn't software. The power button of course didn't work in CWM either. What I hadn't thought of is that I couldn't get back OUT of CWM without the power button. Even a battery pull would put me right back into it. I finally get desperate and yanked the battery and banged the phone on the desk against its power button a few times, then put the battery back in and the phone didn't power itself back on. I then hit the power button, booted to CWM, and managed to use the power button to reboot to system. So that confirms it's hardware to me. So I guess the question shifts to: two phones in a row with this problem, and I've never seen it mentioned before. Am I just incredibly unlucky, or have others experienced this? Second: anyone successfully manage to use a scenario like this to talk them into a different phone? I'm not loving this chain of events, and I'm not loving to hack my phone to get a good stock experience. I'd really love to switch to a Galaxy Nexus. Any tips?
I have the same problem just got it today....Really need to fix this
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Seen a couple different threads about power button. Someone took it in to be repaired/replaced only to have it go bad again later. I guess I have gotten lucky, there was a good while that my power button liked to stick and not function properly. It went away one time after I accidentally left my phone in a hot car. I suppose my issue could have been from something sticky being spilled on the phone though.
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Hey there guys , I've been searching through the forum topics about my issue but so far I've found nothing close to my scenario.
A few months ago I bought my first HTC phone (M8). Its a great device for sure , despite the fact that I had to return it back twice.
First time it was a faulty microphone , so they sent me back a brand new device. Great isn't it ?
However recently I've noticed a few .... let me call them 'glitches' .
Let me give you some details on what I've experienced with the device:
Despite the issues that i'm going through ... the phone works great, but...
Sometimes the screen wont turn on when I'm receiving incoming calls (same goes for the alarm clock) but the phone is able to recognize touches - i've managed to pick up the call when I swiped the screen in the area where the "green" answer button appears .
The above issue doesnt happen so often but the thing that bothers me is the unlocking issue.
At first I thought that it was stuck or faulty power button.
When the phone is idle for some time and I pick it up and press the unlock button ... nothing seems to happen I've tried pressing it hard ... i've tried pressing it gently ... i've tried pressing it multiple times until the screen wakes up .
Same goes for motion launch unlocking .
When I use motion launch to unlock it the phone only gives me a vibration feedback ... and thats it until I try harder to bring the screen back to ''life'' .
(I can also press my security pattern buttons while the screen is dead and feel the phone vibrating , BUT NOT ALWAYS , sometimes is just .. dead )
I already sent the phone back describing the same problems and they just flashed the firmware , which did not fix any of the issues.
Stock Rom android 5.0.1 , not rooted
Soo what do you guys think? What can I do next .. is it android bug or a faulty unit ?
is it possible to be a sensor problem (proximity , accelerometer)
Already tried factory reset and dalvik cache wipe.
Any advice would be useful.
Thanks for taking your time .
Cheerz
I have the same issue. There are times it takes me hitting the power button 20 times for it to finally light up but I can press buttons with it black. The weird thing is it does it on every single ROM but I havent noticed it on Stock...maybe I'm not using stock enough to see. I'll probably throw stock on there today and take it into sprint and let them replace it.
I have the same problem whether it's on stock or custom ROM (KK or L). I am pretty sure this is a hardware problem. Unfortunately, my m8 is out of warranty so HTC won't fix it for free. I read it some where that it could be a faulty proximity switch so shining a light beam to the top part of the phone may wake up the screen. I haven't tried it yet because every time it happens, I don't have a flash light handy. It is an annoying problem to say the least.
When this happens, I pushed the power button, the volume up button, and swiping the screens. Eventually the screen would wake up and every thing works fine... until the next time.
Its a ****ing pain in the ass.
however none of the sensor reading apps report a faulty/stuck sensor.
the wors thing... I've already sent my phone for repair, describing the problems in details. .. and it took them a whole f*cking month to bring it back to me with no results.
I don't think they will replace it because its a problem that takes time to be experienced...and no one is going to wait for it to happen. ...
Any other ideas?
Should I wait for android 6.0 or should I try a custom rom too see if these problems presist.
Fml I love the phone but this is frustrating.
I have the same problem I think. I just bought an M8 on Ebay. I am S-off, unlocked and rooted, using the Viper Rom currently. I have also tried AICP, the stock Tmobile Rom and a few others. Same issue.
If I double tap, I feel the screen vibrate, but nothing comes on. Then, I keep pushing power button a few times. Sometimes it comes on and sometimes I am too impatient to wait, so I just hold power and volume up.
I also know that the phone internals come on, because after that vibration, I swipe up and push the screen a few times. Then, when I am fiddling with the power button and it does come on, I do see that there is an app already on the screen.
I think this is a rare issue, as I haven't even been able to find many posts regarding this. I may have to get a new one if this keeps going on so bad.
Ozger said:
I have the same problem I think. I just bought an M8 on Ebay. I am S-off, unlocked and rooted, using the Viper Rom currently. I have also tried AICP, the stock Tmobile Rom and a few others. Same issue.
If I double tap, I feel the screen vibrate, but nothing comes on. Then, I keep pushing power button a few times. Sometimes it comes on and sometimes I am too impatient to wait, so I just hold power and volume up.
I also know that the phone internals come on, because after that vibration, I swipe up and push the screen a few times. Then, when I am fiddling with the power button and it does come on, I do see that there is an app already on the screen.
I think this is a rare issue, as I haven't even been able to find many posts regarding this. I may have to get a new one if this keeps going on so bad.
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I am experiencing the exact same issue with my M8. I have seen a lot of people stating it may be a hardware fault related to heat and internals but something about how it reacts seems software related.
I really hope someone who has fixed or uncovered the reason comes forward. At this rate I may be switching back to a S4 LTE-A.
Soulink said:
I am experiencing the exact same issue with my M8. I have seen a lot of people stating it may be a hardware fault related to heat and internals but something about how it reacts seems software related.
I really hope someone who has fixed or uncovered the reason comes forward. At this rate I may be switching back to a S4 LTE-A.
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I think it IS hardware related. I was able to return that one and got another M8. No problems at all.