I bought this used and with the guy telling me the home button doesn't work. The weird thing is when I got it the home button worked for a whole day then the next day when I reset it it didn't work anymore. I am thinking the USB charging board might be at fault but not 100% sure. Has anyone had this issue and fixed it, let me know and thanks in advance.
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I know this is a known issue, but I think i got a rare case here.
I had some random issues in the start, before 2.2 came out, when the first
I started getting this issue after going over to 84B(?) and had used the N1 torch (high brightness) till the light started flickering, after that the button hasn't worked at all, EXCEPT inside the flashboot(?) menu, there the button works after about a minute.
Im still lucky enough to the point that the phone starts itself when i remove and insert the battery again (might this mean the power button is already "pushed" in?), also, i installed the trackball wake function just before the power button started malfunctioning so i havn't lost control of my phone just yet.
Does anyone have any tips to get the power button working again?
Get a swap from HTC.
I've done it with a broken power button and unlocked phone.
There's a little problem with that, since I the warranty goes away when you unlock, i took the liberty to open up the phone (removing the warranty sticker over one of the screws). I was happy I did it back then, because my power button started to work abit after that.
Also, I bought my N1 through a reseller on ebay, right after the phone was released, i also live in europe, so i think there will most likely be repair costs to get it fixed.
Has anyone done this before? Does anyone know how much these repairs cost?
Hi had my p1010 (wifi only) tab about 1 week (actually since saturday so only a few days)
Anyway on the first day after playing with it for a few hours I put it down for a bit and when I picked it up the screen wouldnt turn on. No buttons worked and it was as if it had no battery power. I pluged it in but nothing happened. Left it for a while and still nothing.
In the end I fixed it by holding a finger on the screen and holding the power button. The tab turned on and I still had installed programs but all settings had been lost and it looked as if it was its first boot. Also the home and search buttons no longer did anything apart from make the device vibrate. I had to do a factory reset to get the buttons working again.
And now it has happened again.
Does anyone know what is causing this? has it happened to you? Is my unit defective and should I get a replacement?
Thanks for your help
I've only had my P1010 for two weeks, but nothing like that has happened to mine (yet). If it were me I'd be calling Samsung for a replacement :-(
rtfm1777 said:
I've only had my P1010 for two weeks, but nothing like that has happened to mine (yet). If it were me I'd be calling Samsung for a replacement :-(
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Thanks now I know it isn't normal I'll be calling bestbuy tomorrow.
I have searched this exact title and came up with 10 pages and I never saw anyone else with this problem. Surely I cannot be the only one.
After the Gingerbread upgrade I was getting the tethering message/force close, during that time my phone started to randomly shut off ( settle down Beavis, this isn't the same question thats been asked a thousand times ) and reboot. I lived with the tethering message problem for as long as I could but my phone became more ignorant day by day. I finally found a fix for the tethering issue and haven't had a return problem with that but now my phone either stays in standby mode ( dark screen ) and refuses to respond to the hard button to wake it up OR once on it refuses to go into standby mode and stays on until I pop the battery or I go into settings and time the screen out in 15 seconds ( often times this doesn't shut it down either ). Sometimes I can get it to come on by multiple pressing the power button ( this can't be healthy ) and the lock screen will flash momentarily just long enough for me to unlock the screen. Other times it will go to the lock screen while I'm in the middle of something.
Every day at some point while it's on and I'm using it, the power button option screen pops up ( silent mode, flight mode, power off ). When I'm done with a call I try to go into standby and it just sets there...ON.
The thought has crossed my mind that the button doesn't work or has a short but I really think it's something else ( I hope ). Can somebody help me? I am not very techie although I have updated the phone three times myself. It is unrooted and 2.3.5
Thank you in advance
I would go with the power button. It's a known issue on captivate.
mrhaley30705 said:
I would go with the power button. It's a known issue on captivate.
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I stopped by the AT&T store the other day to check on insurance (ends up I didn't have it) and told them about my button not working properly and how the Captivate was notorious for this problem and they all said "We've never heard that". So the gadget gal is in there so she offers to take it apart and check it. She claims there isn't anything wrong with it and that it has the same amount of spring as the volume buttons. She then noticed that when she put the battery back in the phone came on automatically, I said it's not supposed to do that and she agreed but fortunate for me since I cannot turn it on. She then says I'm eligible for an upgrade and try's to sell me a new phone. I don't want a new contract.
So should I try and buy a new button and change it or could it be something else? Thank you in advance.
Are you using a case for your phone by any chance? If yes, is it too tight? Maybe the power button gets stuck because of that sometimes? Just a long shot! You stated that power menu pops up once in awhile when you're using it, is it possible that the way you grip the phone causes that? (Just trying to help and not trying to offend you btw.)
You might want to try flashing UCKK4 with bootloader(use it from the one click master collection of stock rom's) just to make sure that there is no issue with the firmware. It is not likely to fix your problem but it's good to have a clean start. At least that's what I would do to begin with.
Since you're willing to change the power button, why not do an experiment? Remove the power button and see if there is any change? If it works fine then it's the power button that's faulty else it's a hardware problem.
Anybody having problems with the power button not working?
It doesn't work at all no matter how hard I push. At times it works without issue, other times I have to use the camera button to wake my phone.
Anyone else with this?
Defective unit.
me too!!!!
twistedh said:
Anybody having problems with the power button not working?
It doesn't work at all no matter how hard I push. At times it works without issue, other times I have to use the camera button to wake my phone.
Anyone else with this?
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I have this problem just now..i asked my sister to call me to wake up my phone. I thought it was lagging. Turned out the power button is not working. I bought my phone almost three weeks ago...
Power button stopped working for me also
joannaricanaval said:
I have this problem just now..i asked my sister to call me to wake up my phone. I thought it was lagging. Turned out the power button is not working. I bought my phone almost three weeks ago...
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xsoliman3 said:
Power button stopped working for me also
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Did you both ever opened the phone, maybe for repair or the.prevoius owner? Maybe check the "outside" when opening phone (and removing LCD) many times the button flex cable gets damaged or get a small crack so it stop working after some time... The button flex is mounted very easily, maybe just need to get it back right into position and make sure it holds the contacts. The whole flex is just 6euro, repairing easy.. Just follow "ifixit"
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I had a problem with the power button on my phone recently. It was off, just like you describe, guys.
But the combination: power button + vol UP, to force a reboot of the phone worked and after booting, the button was working and the problem never occurred again.
Hello, my power button stopped functioning properly after my device lost connection with my phone several times. Since then my power button doesn't react when pressed. However, long press works 50% of the time, so I can turn it on/off, but I can't double press the button to open an app or turn off the screen for instance. It's really strange. I haven't dropped or physically damaged the watch. I tried hard resetting it 3 times, but that didn't fix the issue. Everything on the watch works apart from the power button. The phone charges perfectly. Any ideas? Do you think this could be caused by a software or mechanical thing?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Same here
I got the exact same problem , I'm running on the last version of the Null_ Rom and my phone is a GalaxyS3 LTE (4G) with a custom official rom of 4.4.4 ( working with gear manager ).
I don't understand pls help
Hey, Has I said few weeks ago, I had the same problem has you, so I tried to change the motherboard, so I bought a new one one IFixIt and I just get it this morning, but when I tried to change the MB I get a little surprise, in fact the screen or the mother board have been flowed on the other one, I don't really understand what the hell happened in this watch but Screen and MB was sticky as fu**, so I'm just gonna try to change the screen, I let you know if it's work again for me in a week or two ( I'm living in France so It would be about 1 or 2 weeks shipping as the MB )
Hey, so today I just changed my screen and the Gear is working now !
So it seem that was a screen problem :silly: