My power and volume up buttons are starting to stick a little bit and to press them feels a little mushy. Any way to clean them to restore the click they made when being pressed? This is really frustrating...
GreenMunky said:
My power and volume up buttons are starting to stick a little bit and to press them feels a little mushy. Any way to clean them to restore the click they made when being pressed? This is really frustrating...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here with the power button... one of it's sides is down. but it doesn't look like it's stuck. I can manage to put it on the right position again easily. It's more like if's loosing the tension...
Me too. Used to have a great feeling click to it. Not sure how long it's been bad, but noticed it a week ago. At times i can't feel it might at all. On a few occasions it's got stuck for long enough to bring up the power off menu.
My volume up is perfect. My volume down isn't so clicky any more, but nothing like the power key. It seems with volume down that now I've noticed and started writing this I've fixed it by pressing repeatedly. Didn't work for power...
I've just watched to this video where she disassemble the moto x:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweww9_RF2E
At 13:40 we can see the button mechanism. It's an ordinary plastic membrane that offers the resistance for those buttons. I think the metal buttons are just too heavy for the kind of membrane that Motorola used on this... The curious thing is that I press the power button half of the times that I should press on an ordinary smartphone, because I always wake it up with the Moto Screen stuff...
Anyway.. I don't think there is a way to fix it without sending it to repair. They will probably disassemble it, change the membrane and send it back to you. And unless they change it for a more resistant membrane, nothing will prevent the issue from appearing again...
Related
My power button on my Kaiser is ridiculously sensitive. I barely touch it and it turns the screen off. It started doing this after I flashed to a rom on here. I've flashed many times before that and never had a problem. Is there's a registry setting or some system setting that can make the power button less sensitive?
It doesn't sound like software issue to me. I mean, button has mechanical contacts that need to be pressed, even if you do not have the ROM on the pda, it will work with the same sensitivity. Try maybe it got stuck almost pressed or something.
Any dust/dirt blocking its proper function? Maybe worth opening up the case for a look.
I opened the back cover and blew it out. I noticed that when I press the button harder, it doesnt do it sometimes. I've been pressing it firmly all day and it seems to have worked, so like mentioned before, there was probably some dust in there. Thanks guys.
Hello all,
I got my phone when they first came out on Jan 5th and have just ran into my first issue. It seems that the power button has become really hard to press (like it is lower than it used to be). I have to press down just right to get it to register. I know that others have been having power button issues and was wondering if anyone has ran into this? Any suggestions on actions to take? What were others peoples power button issues?
Thanks
Yea, I started to use No lock from the market its free. With this program you can use the trackball to unlock you phone or bring it from sleep mode you will not have to use the power button as often.
Hope this helps
Is your button hard to press or just not registering?
Sometimes I would have to push it more then once. So I don't believe its really hard to push but, more so just not registering all the time.
It's not to often I had that problem. but, I did notice you have to use the button alot so I didn't want to wear it down.
Mine used to be like that and then eventually it became extremely hard to press. Practically took 10-15 tries using force to get it to turn on. I sent it back to HTC and now it's more responsive than when I first got it. Took about 4 days total.
Leo Laport's nexus's power button broke. Just send it back.
It could be just dust under the power button. I just took off the back cover and blew at the space under the power button. It's working every time now. Worth a shot before you send it in anways.
I have the same issue, hard to press and sometimes not registering at all.
Unfortunately trackball wake is not available for froyo yet. This would be a fine workaround for me.
I was having problems with the power button not working well, but it seems to be much better under the new FRF72 Froyo build.
SBS_ said:
It could be just dust under the power button. I just took off the back cover and blew at the space under the power button. It's working every time now. Worth a shot before you send it in anways.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good idea!
SBS_ said:
It could be just dust under the power button. I just took off the back cover and blew at the space under the power button. It's working every time now. Worth a shot before you send it in anways.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 on the excellent suggestion.
The rear battery cover is integral to the power button assembly. It keeps it aligned on the fore aft axis. So dust and crap therein seems to restrict it at times. If you have power button issues, at very least remove the battery cover to see if releasing the friction it creates improves things. The power button becomes somewhat wobbly and loose with the rear cover off.
My volume down button does not click like my volume up button. It's always been this way and It's kinda annoying. Volume up gives a very satisfying solid click. But volume down is mushy and you can't even tell its been pressed other than visually seeing it on the screen.
Is this normal, like a manufacturing issue, or is mine unique and defective?
I get a solid click. Must be your device.
Crap I thought so. Now what to do about it. I wish there was a way to easily fix it myself.
RogerPodacter said:
My volume down button does not click like my volume up button. It's always been this way and It's kinda annoying. Volume up gives a very satisfying solid click. But volume down is mushy and you can't even tell its been pressed other than visually seeing it on the screen.
Is this normal, like a manufacturing issue, or is mine unique and defective?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here. cant use vol_down for scrolling when reading cause of it..
my vol down is slightly 'mushier' than my vol up, but still clicks and its still functional. though, i thought i had a similar problem. turns out i wasnt pushing the near the minus [-] sign because of my case.
Its mushy unless I take the battery off.. /: but its fine I can deal with it.
Hey guys
Just wanted to know if there is any way I could fix the power button to make it click. I picked up a Nexus 6 about a month ago used. The power button has no click to it,but I thought that was normal. But just today, I thought I would read into it because I noticed the volume buttons where clickey(never really use them) and that the power button should be too. How or can I fix the power button?
Thanks
hmm the power buttons works but there is no click?
Replace the power button/volume rocker flex cable it's all one unit. Easy to replace.
graydiggy said:
Replace the power button/volume rocker flex cable it's all one unit. Easy to replace.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hahaa. For you. I'm not opening my ****. If it works don't need no click.
It will fail soon enough.
I'm a technician. When these types of buttons lose the click, they fail soon after.
alobear said:
hmm the power buttons works but there is no click?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's right. It feels terrible to press, plus some times when I press the power it doesn't turn on and I'm not sure if I pressed it hard enough....so usually I press very hard to make sure I don't have to press again. 90% of the time it comes right on.
prdog1 said:
Hahaa. For you. I'm not opening my ****. If it works don't need no click.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, I did already take of the back to put on a real leather slickwrap skin(with replacement back) and the stock back was really on there(ripped off a piece of the plastic that stuck to the back cover), but I managed to get it off. Sucky part is, I'd have to rip it back off again and I'm not sure it will stick as well if I do that.
I just need to find the part I guess. I do think that eventually it might stop working.
pretty sure you can use a hair dryer or heat gun and get the back cover off rather easily, should be able to reapply it back again. here is a link to the power and volume buttons.
http://www.etradesupply.com/motorola-nexus-6-power-button-and-volume-button-blue.html
Hi,
I dropped my Xperia Z the other day and now the power button seems to be permanently down (recessed). The case rim below the power button (when looking at the screen) is lifted. Luckily, I can still power up/down, but now the lifted area below the power button has become the button. If I try and push the case rim back into the frame, it pops up *above* the power button. Volume controls still work though.
Obviously my waterproofing has gone, and it looks naff. Anyone seen this before? Is this easy to fix?
I always knew the power button was a weakness on this phone. Didn't think I'd hit it the first time I drop it though.
If the fall have physically damage the frame of the phone near the power button, it is possible that the button is not well fixed in the inside of the phone, and seems don't work well.. I think you must replace the frame of your phone...