[Q] Without a removable battery how do you force reboot? - Sprint HTC One (M7)

My upgrade is due on May 1 and the One is in my plans.
I have never had a phone that didn't occasionally need the battery pulled. How does it work work with current phones?

reaper36 said:
My upgrade is due on May 1 and the One is in my plans.
I have never had a phone that didn't occasionally need the battery pulled. How does it work work with current phones?
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you just have to hold down the power button and it will reboot

This why I don't understand why people cry over pulling a battery. It's more simpler.
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Holding power for about 12 sec is the same as a battery pull.
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budeone said:
Holding power for about 12 sec is the same as a battery pull.
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Way less work. And don't have to abuse your phone or fingers in the process
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edub186 said:
Way less work. And don't have to abuse your phone or fingers in the process
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It takes less than 12 seconds to pull off a battery cover and pull the battery out/push it in -_-
You're right though, the "work" involved is just exhausting

CNexus said:
It takes less than 12 seconds to pull off a battery cover and pull the battery out/push it in -_-
You're right though, the "work" involved is just exhausting
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Depends what kind of case you have on your phone.

mang0 said:
Depends what kind of case you have on your phone.
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True :thumbup:
Ya got me partner

edub186 said:
Way less work. And don't have to abuse your phone or fingers in the process
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True true, but it is less obvious to the uninformed I guess.
Not many people would just think to hold a button for 10+ seconds, some people I talk to don't even have the idea of "long-press" down pat (which I bet is why HTC has largely removed this from all but a few places on the phone)...
.... But you have people as old as my grandfather that know all about yanking batteries out of crap when they ain't working!

Lauski said:
.... But you have people as old as my grandfather that know all about yanking batteries out of crap when they ain't working!
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I resemble this remark. I been pulling batteries since you were knee high to a grasshopper.
You guys are lucky. I can remember my first car phone and I had to pull out the car battery to reset...hahahahahahahahahaa!!!!
Just joking.

Lauski said:
True true, but it is less obvious to the uninformed I guess.
Not many people would just think to hold a button for 10+ seconds, some people I talk to don't even have the idea of "long-press" down pat (which I bet is why HTC has largely removed this from all but a few places on the phone)...
.... But you have people as old as my grandfather that know all about yanking batteries out of crap when they ain't working!
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Exactly
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Doesn't adb reboot do the same thing?

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[How To] Calibrate a Battery

I get asked all the time the proper way to calibrate a battery; so, here's a proper guide for you guys to use to do so and save some post space
How to: Calibrate a Battery correctly on the CDMA Hero.
Charge the phone to 100%
Boot the phone into recovery.
Wipe battery stats
Power phone on, and unplug your fully charged phone
Use your phone until the battery dies. Completly. You want to use it until the phone automaticaly powers off due to low battery
Recharge phone
Repeat the Charging/Killing proccess about 2-3 times
Your battery is callibrated!
Hope this helps cut some questions down!!!
Your picture is better than mine lol good write up bro. Helps limit questions that have been answered! Now if only we could have one for theming aosp ...I had hell learning lol
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abadasstanker69 said:
Your picture is better than mine lol good write up bro. Helps limit questions that have been answered! Now if only we could have one for theming aosp ...I had hell learning lol
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Lol, thanks man I get asked this so much, I figured, why not?
Afraid to let my phone die completely like that. 3x I've had my sdcard need a reformat after the battery died. Only have let the battery die about 5x.
aiwetir said:
Afraid to let my phone die completely like that. 3x I've had my sdcard need a reformat after the battery died. Only have let the battery die about 5x.
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Really?
I recalibrate after every new rom or update to base rom.
Not needed, but I'm weird.
Never hurt my sdcard. Had this phone over a year and a half now.
Sent from my aospGBmod.
aiwetir said:
Afraid to let my phone die completely like that. 3x I've had my sdcard need a reformat after the battery died. Only have let the battery die about 5x.
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I've never had that happen.... what sd card do you have?
Sent from a truly Epic phone!
smoothtaste said:
Really?
I recalibrate after every new rom or update to base rom.
Not needed, but I'm weird.
Never hurt my sdcard. Had this phone over a year and a half now.
Sent from my aospGBmod.
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Yeah, same here, but nothing hurt my card
Sent from a truly Epic phone!
A Impaler sup man quick???? Due for an upgrade thinking of the epic my self how is it vs the evo????
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
laie1472 said:
A Impaler sup man quick???? Due for an upgrade thinking of the epic my self how is it vs the evo????
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
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I love it and think it's better Faster, better screen, keyboard
I've got a transcend 8g class 6 right now and it got messed up just this weekend letting the battery die. It did it the other 2 times on an old card then eventually went tits up not long after that. Needles to say 3 of 5 isn't a good ratio so I'll not be letting the batt die on my phone any time soon.
aiwetir said:
I've got a transcend 8g class 6 right now and it got messed up just this weekend letting the battery die. It did it the other 2 times on an old card then eventually went tits up not long after that. Needles to say 3 of 5 isn't a good ratio so I'll not be letting the batt die on my phone any time soon.
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That's odd... never had that issue with sandisk
I've actually had this problem with 2 8gb class 4 sandisk both died on me, one frozen... not sure if it was related to letting the phone die...
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igtheactt1 said:
I've actually had this problem with 2 8gb class 4 sandisk both died on me, one frozen... not sure if it was related to letting the phone die...
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Thats odd.....
you can always unmount the SD card when the batt gets low, so it would be harder for it to mess up
As many times as I've done this procedure, it's never helped in the least
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quietcblongs said:
you can always unmount the SD card when the batt gets low, so it would be harder for it to mess up
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Very true
brokentoaster24 said:
As many times as I've done this procedure, it's never helped in the least
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May be time for a new phone/battery then
quietcblongs said:
you can always unmount the SD card when the batt gets low, so it would be harder for it to mess up
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I suppose I could do that if I ever want to calibrate the battery.
As many times as I've done this procedure, it's never helped in the least
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yea never works for me either...
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igtheactt1 said:
yea never works for me either...
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Bummer.
I ALWAYS get 26-30 hours battery life. I would say medium use.
Maybe an hour talk time, lots of data, sms, mms.
smoothtaste said:
Bummer.
I ALWAYS get 26-30 hours battery life. I would say medium use.
Maybe an hour talk time, lots of data, sms, mms.
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Yeah on my hero I got from 15-20 easily

The battery isn't that bad as you think.

I think I did good today with slightly heavy use.
I will say that I don't consistently get this performance but when I do I don't complain.
Also juice defender seriously makes a big improvement.
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BDNH said:
I think I did good today with slightly heavy use.
I will say that I don't consistently get this performance but when I do I don't complain.
Also juice defender seriously makes a big improvement.
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This screenshot essentially shows us nothing without the other two. You need to click display in order for us to see the screen on time and click where it says 23hrs 15min as well. We need all that.
The only thing you've shown us is that the phone made it 23 hours and that you actually charged it for a little bit as well LMAO
seh6183 said:
The only thing you've shown us is that the phone made it 23 hours and that you actually charged it for a little bit as well LMAO
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lol, I bet he didnt think you'd see that :laugh:
ok so i came to the atrix at a what i have to say is a perfect time. i bought the phone and 2 days later there was root! i mean i was pretty lucky, had to wait for the unlock code and suffer one day without root! not to shabby. now while i had minimal time without root my battery seemed fine. however, i have since installed setcpu after root and dropped the clock down to 384mhz. while i know its slow! it still gets the job done. have a look at the screen shots.
Any random reboots??
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pandoraFlavor said:
Any random reboots??
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if your asking me which i think you are...none at all. i mean dont get me wrong it takes an extra second in response to what you want to do. its by no means fast at that speed but i ended up getting nearly 21 hours outta it. the battery died while i was playing a game lol. i was hoping to beat it into submission that way. took less than 3 hrs to fully charge back up as well...
You guys need to show your screen on time. Without that, the numbers are pretty meaningless.
pandoraFlavor said:
Any random reboots??
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dnorthington said:
You guys need to show your screen on time. Without that, the numbers are pretty meaningless.
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what do you mean?
im sure it gets the job done but what the point having a 1500mhz phone then
souljaboy said:
im sure it gets the job done but what the point having a 1500mhz phone then
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thats a good point. guess you can crank it up when needed. just nice to get reliable battery life if need be.
kdm212 said:
what do you mean?
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From the battery screen, touch the screen entry. It will show the screen on time. Without that, there are too many variables.
Like this...

The (very-almost-nearly) theft proof Nexus 4

I'm not sure if a mod like this exists already but a couple of days ago I realised that if the power button were disabled entirely on the lock screen and the user installed phone tracking software like lockout then it would be very difficult to steal.
Most thieves turn the phone off and remove the battery immediately once they have the phone so it renders the tracking software useless but if you couldn't long press the power button to shut down, get to the context menu to access shutdown/reboot or remove the battery then in theory the only way to disable it would be to have the sim-access pin on you to take the sim card out.
Is anyone interested in implementing this or has anyone done this already?
The only issue I see with this is if your phone freezes.
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droidmakespwn said:
The only issue I see with this is if your phone freezes.
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True... do you know if it would be possible to have an alternate way of turning the phone off that wouldn't be effected by a crash?
Perhaps some sort of button combination instead of long pressing power.
Alternatively just let the battery run out I suppose...
All someone has to do is put the device into fast boot mode and wipe userdata. Easy if you have a little know how.
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Put a gps tag in it, separate of hardware/software. That's the only way to track it. Otherwise there's always a way to get in if you have physical access to the device.
IRX120 said:
All someone has to do is put the device into fast boot mode and wipe userdata. Easy if you have a little know how.
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Could you put it into fast boot if you're stuck on the lockscreen with the power button disabled though?
Also, highly doubt the average thief would have the know how.
raazman said:
Put a gps tag in it, separate of hardware/software. That's the only way to track it. Otherwise there's always a way to get in if you have physical access to the device.
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Still, a small mod like this would make it all the much harder to steal and get away with.
Even if the power button were disabled in software, you could still long press the button to force a power off. As far as I know, this is a hardware failsafe feature.
ParallelProcess said:
Even if the power button were disabled in software, you could still long press the button to force a power off. As far as I know, this is a hardware failsafe feature.
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You are correct. There is a microchip that disconnects power to the circuit when the power button is held. This mod would have to bypass that microchip and wouldn't be worth it.
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4.2.2 make you accept the RSA keys of the computer so you would need to get past that even in fast boot right?
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scoobdude said:
4.2.2 make you accept the RSA keys of the computer so you would need to get past that even in fast boot right?
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Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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Censura_Umbra said:
Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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Does it really matter if the phone is "lost" or "stolen"? Either way, you don't have it and someone else does.
I'd they take the sim card out ...
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Censura_Umbra said:
Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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You must not go to places like gyms or health clubs. Those places can be bad for stolen phones.
Blazing angel said:
I'd they take the sim card out ...
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I have an app on my phone that will notify me if someone puts another sim card in my phone. It will send me all the sim information and I believe it can even take their picture. Of course this only works on stupid thieves. Luckily the majority are.
grubbster said:
You must not go to places like gyms or health clubs. Those places can be bad for stolen phones.
I have an app on my phone that will notify me if someone puts another sim card in my phone. It will send me all the sim information and I believe it can even take their picture. Of course this only works on stupid thieves. Luckily the majority are.
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And the name of said app is? This sounds really interesting. That it's the one advantage of CDMA... no sim
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Cerberus
NoL1m1tZ said:
Cerberus
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Yep, that be it.
athani said:
Does it really matter if the phone is "lost" or "stolen"? Either way, you don't have it and someone else does.
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Exactly! This wouldn't make it theft proof. Doesn't stop the thief taking it out of your pocket.
As mentioned there are a number of apps that can track the phone, remote wipe etc etc.
Luckily I have never lost a phone or had it stolen. My main and really only concern would be people having access to the pictures of my children. As the nexus 4 doesn't have an SD card slot these are only stored on the phone. So if I remote wipe they won't have access to them. Plus as the storage connects to the PC as MTP most public data recovery tools won't work which is another safety net. Who would have though a phone with no SD slot would be the better option
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Your best bet is Cerberus, survives factory reset

****, I charged my HTC ONE for 16 hours.

Oh god, oh god.
I just bought it yesterday and I'm really scaring of holding it.
It sat on a pillow, in a box [so it would'nt collect dust] the whole night, connected to the charger ofcourse [as I had around 87 Percent at the end of the day I decided to charge it]
This morning I woke up and had to go straight to work, ofcourse I won't bring my lovely new HTC ONE to work, so I left it there and forgot it was charging.
****. ?
Did I harm the battery? it sat there charging for 16 hours. since 0:00 - 16:30.
Please tell me it's alright and doesn't harm anything at all?
Lol. You're overreacting. Absolutely nothing will happen unless you do this every day for months in a row. And not even then maybe.
So chill.
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AdrianE46 said:
Lol. You're overreacting. Absolutely nothing will happen unless you do this every day for months in a row. And not even then maybe.
So chill.
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Your phone has circuitry to prevent overcharging. No need to worry
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YagFrazier said:
Oh god, oh god.
I just bought it yesterday and I'm really scaring of holding it.
It sat on a pillow, in a box [so it would'nt collect dust] the whole night, connected to the charger ofcourse [as I had around 87 Percent at the end of the day I decided to charge it]
This morning I woke up and had to go straight to work, ofcourse I won't bring my lovely new HTC ONE to work, so I left it there and forgot it was charging.
****. ?
Did I harm the battery? it sat there charging for 16 hours. since 0:00 - 16:30.
Please tell me it's alright and doesn't harm anything at all?
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You should be fine. Once charge reaches 100%, it will switch to trickle charge.
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YagFrazier said:
It sat on a pillow, in a box ... ofcourse I won't bring my lovely new HTC ONE to work
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lol. I always act like this when I get a new phone. Then a week later I realize that it's just a phone.
AdrianE46 said:
Lol. You're overreacting. Absolutely nothing will happen unless you do this every day for months in a row. And not even then maybe.
So chill.
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+1
I would be more worried that you keep your phone in the box, on a pillow, than I would about the extended charging.
I love my devices too but it's a phone not butterfly wings lol
ingenious247 said:
I would be more worried that you keep your phone in the box, on a pillow, than I would about the extended charging.
I love my devices too but it's a phone not butterfly wings lol
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Good point. Interracial maybe?
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AdrianE46 said:
Lol. You're overreacting. Absolutely nothing will happen unless you do this every day for months in a row. And not even then maybe.
So chill.
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Thank, and thank all those who replied aswell
Thanks, I started using it more seriously today, battery's down 26% since I unplugged it.
It went through almost constant use (opening instagram, opening settings, just watching the homescreen)
It's been around an hour of this use with the phone on saving mode and airplane mode with WiFi.. is it okay?
AdrianE46 said:
Good point. Interracial maybe?
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Don't get the interracial comment. I was referring to the fact the phone is not that delicate

Disgusted with Google customer service

So I know this has been discussed many times already but i am appalled at Google's customer "service". My nexus 5 has the rattle issue pretty bad and also the sim tray protrudes. I contacted Google regarding the issue and they responded by saying this is normal and we wont replace???? Anyone else had this problem?
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I think they've been told not to RMA the phones now for what is widely considered to be 'manufacturing differences'. Could be wrong, though
Just say it overheats and you're scared that it might hurt you.
Give it a bit before you do though because all chat logs are saved and they will know you're lying..
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yea posting here will help
CheesyNutz said:
yea posting here will help
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I'm not looking for help? Just wondered if anyone had similar experiences
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snowwhite007 said:
I'm not looking for help? Just wondered if anyone had similar experiences
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I had a fantastic customer service experience when I RMA'd my phone. My micro USB chord would not stay in the phone and came out very easily. The service agent was courteous, professional and pleasant.
I think they've had too many people using the "button rattle" to just get a newer phone. Can't say as I blame them.
So you tried to report two non issues as a reasons to get an RMA and you were denied?
Glad to see Google reps doing their job properly.
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What do you mean that the sim tray protrudes? That it doesn't close fully and sticks out more than the power button? Or it sticks out less than that?
I'm glad they aren't RMA'ing for rattles. You will be hard pressed to find a smart phone that doesn't rattle. I think after the Nexus 4 debacle with so many people returning them, they changed their stance to stop a lot of frivolous returns. So many people try to abuse the system (and even a poster in this thread encouraged lying) that it makes it hard for people who might have legitimate problems.
Good.
Put your phone in a case. Both issues solved
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My buttons rattle.
Why would I RMA it?
So you're disgusted with google for not giving you a new phone when there's nothing wrong with your current phone? Is that what we're supposed to understand here?
K.
Stand by for threads complaining about google not doing rmas to get a red Nexus 5.
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My buttons rattle like crazy, but the phone works just fine. Why would RMA it?
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I just bought this phone but the Nexus logo on the back goes in a bit when I apply pressure. Is that normal?
iggie94 said:
I just bought this phone but the Nexus logo on the back goes in a bit when I apply pressure. Is that normal?
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Yup. Mine does that, but only when I actually press on it. If you really don't like it, just take the back off and put some thin foam or something under the back.
aooga said:
Yup. Mine does that, but only when I actually press on it. If you really don't like it, just take the back off and put some thin foam or something under the back.
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Thanks. I noticed the problem yesterday and it worried me a bit. I won't look too much into it. :good:
Mine rattled it bugged me so I opened the phone and fixed it. No issues since.
Jattro said:
What do you mean that the sim tray protrudes? That it doesn't close fully and sticks out more than the power button? Or it sticks out less than that?
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I had this issue on my first device. It was out a bit, but no way near the power button. It wasn't flush thou. But I didn't RMA for this. I RMA for faulty LCD. Orange spot appeared on my screen.
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