(HELP) Power button broken! - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Hello guys!
I need something to power on phone without using a jig. A rom with working button remap to power on phone, or is there anyway to make volume + button to work when phone is turned off, and actually manage to turn it on?
I have done button remap and it only works as long as phone is turned on.

Najuto9tail said:
Hello guys!
I need something to power on phone without using a jig. A rom with working button remap to power on phone, or is there anyway to make volume + button to work when phone is turned off, and actually manage to turn it on?
I have done button remap and it only works as long as phone is turned on.
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I would recommend you get a rom with volume wake. There are apps on the google play store that, the one I use is call "Button Savior".
This is assuming that you can get the phone to power up to recovery and flash a working rom. Currently using the CM 10.1 and it's working pretty well for me.

nomoney4me said:
I would recommend you get a rom with volume wake. There are apps on the google play store that, the one I use is call "Button Savior".
This is assuming that you can get the phone to power up to recovery and flash a working rom. Currently using the CM 10.1 and it's working pretty well for me.
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Thanks I downloaded Beanstalk because of 4.4.2 version, It included Volume button wake but. I remap the Volume key to turn on and off screen by editing the key layout files in system. I used this guide of reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696526
Removed faulty switch and use a paper clip to turn on and off the phone.
Paper clip can be stored inside battery cover.
This phone is from my friend which I fixed for him.
Thanks :good:

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[Q]uestion - Change wake phone button?

I promise - I watched the video and searched the hell out of this before posting...
can you change the wake phone function from the power button to, say, the volume keys and/or the home soft button?
thanks in advance. please don't slaughter me if this is posted elsewhere!
hobakill said:
I promise - I watched the video and searched the hell out of this before posting...
can you change the wake phone function from the power button to, say, the volume keys and/or the home soft button?
thanks in advance. please don't slaughter me if this is posted elsewhere!
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Idk where it is at in the samsung devices but usually you can change the key layout by editing user-key layout you can also remap the search button to any app.
Killbynature said:
Idk where it is at in the samsung devices but usually you can change the key layout by editing user-key layout you can also remap the search button to any app.
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i can see how that would be useful but i couldn't find it and moreover, i think when the phone goes into sleep-mode, those soft keys are disabled. i guess i am looking for a way to either wake the phone with the volume keys - or - somehow enable those soft buttons so i can hit the home one and wake up my phone.
hobakill said:
i can see how that would be useful but i couldn't find it and moreover, i think when the phone goes into sleep-mode, those soft keys are disabled. i guess i am looking for a way to either wake the phone with the volume keys - or - somehow enable those soft buttons so i can hit the home one and wake up my phone.
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You would have to give the keys a set wake option. I can do it for htc devices but i don't know much about samsung devices. You would want a volume rocker wake I'm guessing or menu and back wake right. You can also use an app called widget locker it enables you to wake the device from volume rocker etc.
thanks again for the thoughts.
i think i'll patiently wait a few weeks for people smarter than me to start writing apps specific to this phone.
have a great day!
I think this will come in handy since some of us don't want to wear out the power button but be able to use both. The only problem I might see using the volume button is when you are listening to something with your headphones. Would pressing the volume button be changing the volume or waking the phone? hahaha..i'm sure there will be options.
The latest version of Juggernaut has that as an option, if you're into flashing custom roms.
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skadude66 said:
The latest version of Juggernaut has that as an option, if you're into flashing custom roms.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
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That is correct, Juggernaut 2.6 has this feature and flashing is pretty simple.
i use this option on Juggernaut too. its great cuz i cant always reach the power button even tho i have huge hands.
which ROM except Juggernaut has this option, I mean waking phone up by sound button?
Darkside's Dewizzed does. and it's a GREAT rom.
I actually hate the 'feature'. I listen to music lots with my phone, and having to double tap the volume rocker to adjust volume sucks, and then it turns on the screen. Since half the time it's in my pocket and i'm pushing buttons through that... long story short i've pocket texted a couple times.
/rant.
Yes, and you can do this without rooting and without installing a custom rom by using the application widget locker, which has an option to wake the phone using the volume keys. Otherwise several roms support this such as the Darkside Dewizzed rom.
Epic bump, but Josh from mobile tech videos gave my phone a solution like this when my phone had an internal shortage. He set the volume+ button as the wake button and it did involve the key layout as someone in this thread had said earlier. Ill be back with a link to an xda thread that had the same idea but for a different device.
I bump this because even though he changed the button layout, I completely forgot about it and flashed a different rom :S now I seek a solution.
samsung s 2 wake up without power button
hobakill said:
thanks again for the thoughts.
i think i'll patiently wait a few weeks for people smarter than me to start writing apps specific to this phone.
have a great day!
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you can download an app like dragon and enable wake up phrase and set lock screen to none the wake up phrase you choose will wake up device so you can access apps with your voice
galaxyst said:
which ROM except Juggernaut has this option, I mean waking phone up by sound button?
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ParanoidAndroid also has this function. I already had my power button fail once and had to replace it I now have the option of using the volume buttons or power button to wake the phone.

[HELP] Stucked in Hboot

My Desire has just came contact with water yesterday.
I suppose everything is fine.
Just that my volume rocker(vol. down) is stuck.
So whenever I try to turn on my phone, it will bring me to the hboot.
I can't even use the volume rocker to get me to the recovery
Is there anyway that I can turn on my phone?
Thank you very much
Can't you move in hboot at all (vol up?)?
Have you tried vol down + power + trackball to reboot your phone? (This way you wouldn't start the phone with power and vol down, maybe that's enough to boot into the rom.)
However if you boot into rom a whole new set of nightmares would greet you. Phone always silent etc. (Yet you might be able to use button remapper to assign "nothing" to that button.)
If I were you I would pop out battery and put the phone in slightly elevated temperature (white some free air movement) and hope it would completely dry out. That would probably enough to fix the switch. How long did you let your phone dry after "weting" it?
Stick your phone in rice with the battery out for a few days, then boot into Fastboot (back & power), and run a RUU. You can find one for your network from shipped-roms.com. Just make sure you download a Froyo one not an Eclair one.
Hmm, I've tried the rice method it doesn't work
I've left it for around 12 hours
I disassembled the whole and sever the volume circuit already :X
However.. it still doesn't work
It still forces me into hboot
I can't seems to get to fast boot either
It would be fine If i can gain control in hboot, so I can boot into recovery and boot into system.
I only want to save all my messages before.. dumping the phone :x
If there any other ways?
Thank you for the help
.tnm said:
Can't you move in hboot at all (vol up?)?
Have you tried vol down + power + trackball to reboot your phone? (This way you wouldn't start the phone with power and vol down, maybe that's enough to boot into the rom.)
However if you boot into rom a whole new set of nightmares would greet you. Phone always silent etc. (Yet you might be able to use button remapper to assign "nothing" to that button.)
If I were you I would pop out battery and put the phone in slightly elevated temperature (white some free air movement) and hope it would completely dry out. That would probably enough to fix the switch. How long did you let your phone dry after "weting" it?
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ARGHH! I should have waited for your comment! I was too impatient the "vol down + power + trackball " works!!! Thank you very much.. although I don't have access to the volume controll.... but at least I have a phone that is working.. partially! Thank you very much!
woshiitcy said:
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have a phone that is working.. partially! Thank you very much!
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U can use ButtonRemapper (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464) to assign volume functionality to other buttons. This only works within the booted rom, however.
.tnm said:
U can use ButtonRemapper (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464) to assign volume functionality to other buttons. This only works within the booted rom, however.
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Wow! Really thank you very much! At least I got a working phone
Thanks a lot!
.tnm said:
U can use ButtonRemapper (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464) to assign volume functionality to other buttons. This only works within the booted rom, however.
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Hmm.. do you have any idea of disabling the volume button?
I'm not sure, what happens if you edit volume down and set state to 'none' in remapper?
Or you can try editing
/system/usr/keylayout/bravo-keypad.kl
(needs root and system mounted as R/W)
and delete the characters after key 115 and key 114 (or maybe even delete both lines)
create a backup first (or if u use Root Explorer's Text editor it will create automatically create one before saving)
Oh, okay, thank you, once again, you have save my life!!
Tried the mapper, but phone keep restarting
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Sorry for the trouble again :x
It seems that when I lock my phone, the phone will automatically wakes up
I don't think it is the power button, as when I'm using my phone, my phone doesn't auto lock itself...
It just auto wakes
Is there any app, there can find which button is faulty?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA
What rom are you using?
In BCM (CM9 source) there are two options in settings/display at the bottom in wakeup options section: volume rocker wake and trackball wake. If you have those, uncheck them.
Dont think so, using a sense rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200466
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bortak said:
Stick your phone in rice with the battery out for a few days
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This would probably work if he didn't power the phone on - which he did. After that, damage has been done. In my liquid cooling my pc experience, if the short circuit happened, the game is over in 99% of the cases.
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erklat said:
This would probably work if he didn't power the phone on - which he did. After that, damage has been done. In my liquid cooling my pc experience, if the short circuit happened, the game is over in 99% of the cases.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk 2
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In fact bortak was talking about the 1%.
Any ideas? haed to lock my phone, no problem unlocking, weird!
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[Q] I have a black screen after trying to root my Galaxi S3 SGH- I747M

I was in the process of rooting my Samsung S3 with Odin3, everything was going well, I was following the steps from theunlokr.com .. it looked like all the processes were done but at the end the screen never came on. I keep pressing the power button still don’t turn on. I hold the 3 buttons at the same time (Vol Up+Home+Power) nothing happen.
I press the on/off button and it plays the start up ring shows the Samsung logo and then it goes black.
Can anyone help please, I hope I can fix it ASAP, need my phone for work. Can't understand what went wrong.
Need your help
Thank you!!
First mistake was using a site other than XDA to root your phone. Pull the battery and hold the power putton for about ten seconds. Put the battery back in, hold the down volume button + the home button + the power button until you feel it vibrate and then let go of the power button while holding the home and volume down buttons. It should go into download mode and ask you to confirm by pressing the up volume button. If this works then using Odin on the computer to flash back to stock rooted.
Vadim G said:
I was in the process of rooting my Samsung S3 with Odin3, everything was going well, I was following the steps from theunlokr.com .. it looked like all the processes were done but at the end the screen never came on. I keep pressing the power button still don’t turn on. I hold the 3 buttons at the same time (Vol Up+Home+Power) nothing happen.
I press the on/off button and it plays the start up ring shows the Samsung logo and then it goes black.
Can anyone help please, I hope I can fix it ASAP, need my phone for work. Can't understand what went wrong.
Need your help
Thank you!!
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Thanks a lot
beaverslayer said:
First mistake was using a site other than XDA to root your phone. Pull the battery and hold the power putton for about ten seconds. Put the battery back in, hold the down volume button + the home button + the power button until you feel it vibrate and then let go of the power button while holding the home and volume down buttons. It should go into download mode and ask you to confirm by pressing the up volume button. If this works then using Odin on the computer to flash back to stock rooted.
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Thanks a bunch! I finally got my phone to work>>> your advice helped a lot and I got my standard ROM on and I'll keep it till later tonight, as I needed for the day, really needed at work> but as soon as I get home I am planning to get a different ROM on it
can you suggest any ?
Thanks again, you made my day!
Vadim G said:
Thanks a bunch! I finally got my phone to work>>> your advice helped a lot and I got my standard ROM on and I'll keep it till later tonight, as I needed for the day, really needed at work> but as soon as I get home I am planning to get a different ROM on it
can you suggest any ?
Thanks again, you made my day!
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Some solid ROMs include: CNA (codenameandroid), Kyan, CM.
I used to use BlackJelly as my daily-driver, but couldn't do without the AllShareCast functionality, so I'm back to stock-rooted, until I find a ROM that both looks awesome and supports AllShareCast.

Button remapping?

A friend broke his phones power button.
Is there any way to remap power to another button?
And if there is would it work for turning on the phone?
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He might just have to use the home button to turn it on, and download a sleep button from the play store. That's probably the easiest way.
Yes there are several ways to awake the phone. But Broken Power button will post a lot more challenges if you happen to turn off the phone. Best have it repaired.
the power button does work kinda (its super sensitive if you slide your finger over it without pushing it down, it will activate).
say i disable it while the phone is turned on would i still be able to turn the phone on with it?
So long physically its working fine, the button will turn on the phone from power off state. Any mods you do to disable it will only affect when Android is operational. Some of the Roms for the S3 do allow to change the button that will awake the phone. Typically the home button will be the alternate choice. Also there are apps in Play Store that do this as well.
thanks for all the help i really appreciate it

Question Any way to make long-press power button turn on flashlight?

Most custom ROM's let you turn on the flashlight by holding down the power button for a moment.
And there are some apps on the play store that let you turn on the power button by holding down the volume button.
I don't like the volume-button deal.
Anyone know of a way to make this work via the power button on stock rooted ROM?
Gravity box. Working alright.

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