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[Q] Power key performance

How does your power key performs? I mean mine responds only when hard pressed or pressed by the right side part of it.
I asked this because all my LG devices have these pretty hard to press hardware keys in contrast to my SE devices.

Comes on at any sign of a click, can do far left, far right etc. Button itself is perfect.
How old is your phone? Worn out over time a possibility ?
there's a mod that lets you wake via volume buttons if you're into that.
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can u tell me what mod. u mean exactly? any instructions?

Use widgetlocker and in use easy-wake mode. It lets you wake up the phone with any hardware button.
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Or in case you're using CM or MIUI, theres an option to enable that in the settings menu.

silentmelodies said:
Or in case you're using CM or MIUI, theres an option to enable that in the settings menu.
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... that, at least for CM7, works at random

My power botton is now useless :/
I have to force it down, just to wake it ):
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Too bad..........should I reduce the usage of it :S

neosnow5413 said:
Too bad..........should I reduce the usage of it :S
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it now has gotten better over the last dayy

Disabling power button altogether?

It would seem that the closer I get to buying my SGS III, the more my cappy starts to fall apart.
Recently the power button has been on the fritz, pressing itself and opening up the power menu at random intervals as well as turning my screen on and off whenever it damn well feels like it. It's infuriating to say the least.
Is there any way to completely disable the power button so I can just use workarounds until I get my SGS III? All of the searching I've done thus far has turned up nada.
Also, yes I have taken my phone out and cleaned it with compressed air and that didn't do a damn thing. I'm pretty sure I've knocked the connection loose from all of the abuse I've given it over the last year or so.
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Go to /system/usr/keylayouts/aries- keypad.kl
And erase the line with key 116 power in it, and from there you can rename any key the new power button and then reboot. I just had to do this to my phone as well I feel your pain!
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Wdustin1 said:
Go to /system/usr/keylayouts/aries- keypad.kl
And erase the line with key 116 power in it, and from there you can rename any key the new power button and then reboot. I just had to do this to my phone as well I feel your pain!
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Awesome. Can I still use the key combo to get into recovery and boot my phone with the power button after I make the change?
And if I rename the search key to power button do I leave it as virtual or change it to wake?
Should it be:
Key 217 Power Virtual
Or
Key 217 Power Wake
I just want to get the syntax right the first time around. Again, you're awesome and thanks a ton!
Edit:
Got the power button remapped to the search key. Problem with that though, is that I forgot the capacitive keys don't register touch when the screen is off lol. Derp.
Edit2:
Went ahead and mapped it to a volume key. Thanks again for saving my sanity!
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No problem. I don't know what rom you run but if you have the volume awake feature you can use the volumes to wake the phone and then use the search "power" button to lock and reboot and stuff.
Also this remap only applies once android has booted up so it has no affect on when in recovery or download or off anything like that.
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Wdustin1 said:
No problem. I don't know what rom you run but if you have the volume awake feature you can use the volumes to wake the phone and then use the search "power" button to lock and reboot and stuff.
Also this remap only applies once android has booted up so it has no affect on when in recovery or download or off anything like that.
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Yeah im on AOKP, so I was going to use it like you described until I read somewhere that it changed the key used to boot up and get into recovery. I didn't want to take the chance of having to figure out how to boot my phone without a power button.
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You could go to setting->display->volume key wakes up phone option. If youre worried about not being able to get into recovery, download rom manager if you dont already have it. There is an option to do several things like booting into recovery, backup roms, partition SD card, fix permissions, etc. What about that?

kelk0530 said:
You could go to setting->display->volume key wakes up phone option. If youre worried about not being able to get into recovery, download rom manager if you dont already have it. There is an option to do several things like booting into recovery, backup roms, partition SD card, fix permissions, etc. What about that?
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Thanks for the reply. I actually had that option enabled already when I was using the search key as a power button. Turns out though, that the volume keys dont wake the phone if you're playing music (which is like half of the time I have my phone on me outside of work lol). In the end, im just using the volume down key as a power button and its working well for me so far. If I need to get into recovery I can still use the power menu. As for not being able to power up the phone when it was bound to the search key, it's now turning on the moment the battery is inserted, so no worries there anymore ;P
Not to mention I should have my SGS 3 on Thursday, so it only has to work until then
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pizz0wn3d said:
Not to mention I should have my SGS 3 on Thursday, so it only has to work until then
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Not jealous at all... Ok maybe a little
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Not jealous at all... Ok maybe a little
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Capacitive Keys no longer vibrating?

Hey, randomly- I can't really remember exactly when it happened but my capacitive keys no longer vibrate. Any where to check to ensure it's not a hardware problem? I'm not rooted or anything. I checked "Sounds" and "Vibrate on touch" is still checked. I toggled it a couple times and still nothing. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Any chance your power save mode was on?

What is your battery level? At a certain point (20%?, 15%?) the phone goes into power save mode, with disabling vibrate among the settings.
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phat78boy said:
Any chance your power save mode was on?
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Probably this. Power save has an option for haptic feedback as well.
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Bingo! It's been on for two days lol thanks a bunch guys!
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[HOW-TO] Enter Safe Mode via System

All you have to do is press and hold the power button, press and hold "Power Off" and then you will get an option to go to safe mode, press "Ok" and you will reboot to safe mode.
Thank me if this was helpful.

It works on paranoid android 3.65 but what is the purpose of safe mode?
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MrToastedAndroid said:
It works on paranoid android 3+, but what is the purpose of safe mode?
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If a 3rd Party App is causing an issue safe mode can help disable it for that user to remove it, same applies for widgets.
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To get on stock, when booting, just hold Volume Down button, when "X" boot appears ( you can hold it earlier even at google logo) but remember JUST Volume DOWN Button)

Doesnt work on cm

LoVeRice said:
Doesnt work on cm
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Hold on reboot. Just tried it. Works
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Using carbon rom my phone just turns off because of holding the power button after @ 10 seconds.

meangreenie said:
Using carbon rom my phone just turns off because of holding the power button after @ 10 seconds.
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why are you holding it for 10 seconds?

Zainiak said:
why are you holding it for 10 seconds?
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Well I like to follow instructions precisely and they never said to let go or until.
Anyway got it to come up on the carbon rom.... Bring up power menu as normal, hold reboot option and safe mode message comes up.

Looks like on custom ROMs you have to hold reboot.
Paranoid 3+ is the same has the stock rom.
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meangreenie said:
Well I like to follow instructions precisely and they never said to let go or until.
Anyway got it to come up on the carbon rom.... Bring up power menu as normal, hold reboot option and safe mode message comes up.
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That's a great way to do it. Thanks. Works like this on purity as well.
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[Q] Stuck in extreme power saving mode

I switched on extreme power saving mode because I only had 6 percent battery life left and didn't have access to an outlet. Now that I do have it charging, it wont let me disable it. When I click exit it just says Please Wait (been like that for about 20 minutes). Any idea how to fix this?
I am completely stock and unrooted
I've tried shutting down and restarting

mmcjam07 said:
I switched on extreme power saving mode because I only had 6 percent battery life left and didn't have access to an outlet. Now that I do have it charging, it wont let me disable it. When I click exit it just says Please Wait (been like that for about 20 minutes). Any idea how to fix this?
I am completely stock and unrooted
I've tried shutting down and restarting
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Only way i can think of is to reboot to bootloader and factory reset. Plug it in your computer to see if you can save your pics and stuff. If you went to a sprint store that is what they would do.
To get into bootloader power off device hold volume down and the power button. Click hboot then factory reset. That should do it.

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Only way i can think of is to reboot to bootloader and factory reset. Plug it in your computer to see if you can save your pics and stuff. If you went to a sprint store that is what they would do.
To get into bootloader power off device hold volume down and the power button. Click hboot then factory reset. That should do it.
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Thanks for the response. After about an hour of trying any and everything to get it working I was able to find a way into the power save settings and disable it from there. Not really sure what happened
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mmcjam07 said:
Thanks for the response. After about an hour of trying any and everything to get it working I was able to find a way into the power save settings and disable it from there. Not really sure what happened
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For some reason both power saving modes are greyed out & I can't even turn them on, any suggestions?

CV44 said:
For some reason both power saving modes are greyed out & I can't even turn them on, any suggestions?
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I was able to get mine greyed out by going into Developer Options and checking the High Performance Mode option. Maybe yours is checked?
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mmcjam07 said:
I was able to get mine greyed out by going into Developer Options and checking the High Performance Mode option. Maybe yours is checked?
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Dude, you are the man! thanks!

CV44 said:
Dude, you are the man! thanks!
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No problem!
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mmcjam07 said:
Thanks for the response. After about an hour of trying any and everything to get it working I was able to find a way into the power save settings and disable it from there. Not really sure what happened
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How did you get into the power save settings? I wasn't able to when I was stuck in extreme power save mode.

Robbie_G said:
How did you get into the power save settings? I wasn't able to when I was stuck in extreme power save mode.
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I went to phone, then the menu button, settings, then click the back button on the top right and it will take you into the System Settings
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Same thing happened to me I called HTC and we got it into safe mode and when I hit the home button extreme power saving mode pooped up as a homescreen/launcher along with blink feed and nova so I selected nova and no more issues
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I'm having the same issue, it's been over an hour stuck like this. I went in through the phone to settings down to the High Performance Mode and nothing. I tried Safe Mode, nothing. I went into the power settings through system settings and the extreme mode was grayed out as well. I can't do anything to get it working.
Any other ideas? HTC had no idea what I was talking about and told me to take it back to Sprint.

Staatus_Quo said:
I'm having the same issue, it's been over an hour stuck like this. I went in through the phone to settings down to the High Performance Mode and nothing. I tried Safe Mode, nothing. I went into the power settings through system settings and the extreme mode was grayed out as well. I can't do anything to get it working.
Any other ideas? HTC had no idea what I was talking about and told me to take it back to Sprint.
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This thread saved my life! I hope this gets to HTC and this bug is fixed! It apparently has something to do with the extreme power saving mode replaceing your home screen, and not being able to find and set the defult home screen back be it blink feed, or google now launcher ect.

Get the lastest software update to permanently fix this problem
I also ran into this problem, and was able to fix it permanently by updating the HTC software with the latest Sprint update. I got there by getting into the general setting by back-spacing while in the phone setting (it won't work for other settings). Now when in EPSM window the exit button works as intended (albeit a bit slowly)

GXnext said:
This thread saved my life! I hope this gets to HTC and this bug is fixed! It apparently has something to do with the extreme power saving mode replaceing your home screen, and not being able to find and set the defult home screen back be it blink feed, or google now launcher ect.
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I turn the extreme power safe mode on every night when I go to bed, and disable it the next morning. I had been doing it without a problem for 2 months and this morning had this problem as well. And the funny thing is, BlinkFeed is not my home screen. Reboot, nothing. Forced reboot, nothing. Anyways, toggling the extreme power safe mode on and then off did the trick for me as well.

dreDrennon1 said:
Same thing happened to me I called HTC and we got it into safe mode and when I hit the home button extreme power saving mode pooped up as a homescreen/launcher along with blink feed and nova so I selected nova and no more issues
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I have the AT&T M8 but I had this issue as well this morning and this thread saved me the headache of figuring it out. Just wanted to say thanks and that dreDrennon... Your POOPS are AWESOME! (read above) :good:

Cant be Exit - Extremen Power Saver mode -
I have HTC Desire 816 rooted Kitkat version. Now my problem is exit extreme power saver mode.
i can enter exit extreme power saver mode. but i cant to exit extremen power saver mode, my another problem is i cant to bootloader, fastboot etc. so i cant to factory reset. now i am stuck with extreme power saver mode,, please help me to exit power saver mode.

The way out of that page is to click call icon, then setting icon, go back and finally put on (again) extreme power saving mode. Then you can easily exit from extreme power saving mode. Thank you! Jide

For those who are having same ussue on htc 10 devices. (cuz i had one just right now)-
Try holding wolume down button right after powering on to get in safe mode. From there you will be able to disable epsm.
*btw whos curse is this, i had this issue when my keyboard started to press ghost input where it a7ctua7lly type5s8 like5 this8 a7nd9 i ha7ve5 to d9e5le5te5 the5 numbers myself lol