S-pen button not bringing up menu - T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When I press the button, I'm not getting the circle menu. It shows initially after I pull out the pen, but not with the button. Anybody know how I can fix it? I'm rooted on Firekat V5.

Never mind. I'm dumb. Had to turn on Air Command in settings.

Go back to stock with Odin and start over. Lmao
BAD ASS NOTE 4

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VOL down + power botton is not work..
how to do it??
try using your spen
Swiping your entire hand across the screen should also work..
Yep confirm swiping the edge of your palm from right to left of screen still works..
MENU+Power button for about 2 seconds
That's pretty weird. I thought when Google announced ICS, they mentioned that the holding down of Volume Down + Power button will work across all Android 4.0 devices.
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Power+home works.
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Power button + menu not working for me. Not sure if it's because of apex.
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none of this options works for me!
Galaxy Note with stock ICS and GoLauncher.... what can i do??
Long press Power + Home and screen shot should work. It works for me on Note with official ICS
I can't get the screenshot using the s pen to work after my ice update. UK stock LPT . Any ideas why?
screen cap with stylus
tried out with stylus; you need to press and hold the button on the stylus.
while pressing and holding the button on the stylus, tap and hold the stylus anywhere on the screen.
Works on any app.
I haven't gotten any other recommendation to work.
It used to work for me like that on GB but not now on ICS
Just Swype the side if your hand across the screen
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azzledazzle said:
Just Swype the side if your hand across the screen
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got it working again. The screen wrote always worked.
spen is more better option to cature screen. u can edit it straightway if u want.. just press buton on spen and tab it for 2-3 sec.

[Q] Power button is not locking/turning off screen but works to bring up power menu.

So this morning I picked up my Note 4, used it normally to check emails, etc, went to turn off/lock screen and it wouldn't respond at all. I held down the power button and then it brings up the power menu, I restarted a few times and still nothing. Is my power button defective or could some setting have automatically changed the settings?
Go to *#0*# and select Sub-Key. Press every physical button on the Note 4 one by one (Volume Up, Volume Down, Home Button, Power Button On, Power Button Off). If the end result is PASS, then you're Power button is fine. Can also be a sticky / tacky power button, or something you modded in the settings.
artkrime said:
So this morning I picked up my Note 4, used it normally to check emails, etc, went to turn off/lock screen and it wouldn't respond at all. I held down the power button and then it brings up the power menu, I restarted a few times and still nothing. Is my power button defective or could some setting have automatically changed the settings?
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arjun90 said:
Go to *#0*# and select Sub-Key. Press every physical button on the Note 4 one by one (Volume Up, Volume Down, Home Button, Power Button On, Power Button Off). If the end result is PASS, then you're Power button is fine. Can also be a sticky / tacky power button, or something you modded in the settings.
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Just did the test, every button turned a different color, volume up (gray) volume down (green), menu (brown), home (blue) back (purple) , power (red, is this a fail?) but I didnt get any PASS. Is the power button supposed to have 2 colors, one for on and one for off? I tried holding down the power button but that brings up the power menu.
Also noticed that the screen will not dim or turn off automatically.
Update: I ended up doing a reinstall of the stock fw through Odin and it fixed it. I wonder what caused it and where those settings/issue where stored? I had tried doing a reset from within settings, but as I understand, that doesn't clear ALL the data.
I know how it feels when the diagnostic doesn't yield a pass. Glad to hear that reflashing the stock firmware resolved it though. Could have been something deep in the firmware causing this. Keep us updated if it persists again. The power button has been a culprit of problems in the past for many as well in previous Note devices. The final result should have displayed "PASS" on the display, perhaps you didn't complete the task, that's okay. Sometimes simply clearing the cache instead of factory reset could have resolved the problem as well. Samsung is notorious time to time.
artkrime said:
Just did the test, every button turned a different color, volume up (gray) volume down (green), menu (brown), home (blue) back (purple) , power (red, is this a fail?) but I didnt get any PASS. Is the power button supposed to have 2 colors, one for on and one for off? I tried holding down the power button but that brings up the power menu.
Also noticed that the screen will not dim or turn off automatically.
Update: I ended up doing a reinstall of the stock fw through Odin and it fixed it. I wonder what caused it and where those settings/issue where stored? I had tried doing a reset from within settings, but as I understand, that doesn't clear ALL the data.
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I have a Note 4 too and since a few days I have been noticing this issue. The power button doesn't wake the screen up. I have to fiddle around the button a little bit, press it a bit harder sometimes and then it works.
Also noticed that when this happens, I unlock the phone using the Home button and when I try to use the power button then nothing happens. Keeping the power button pressed doesn't give me the reboot/boot options either until I fiddle with it.
The strange this is, one it starts working, i can use it again and again until I leave the phone aside until sometime and then the power button does nothing until i repeat fiddling it.
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Also ran the test : *#0*# and select Sub-Key
All buttons work except the power button but again if I press hard and try to nudge the button a little bit, I saw the colour change to RED. No PASS either.
Do you have any xposed modules installed? I had this happen with either gravitybox or wanam when I tried to tinker with the power menus. *3.
No. Everything is stock and not rooted either.
In my case, a complete wipe to factory fixed the issue for me and never had the issue since then, but it kind of sounds like you may have a hardware issue.
that's what I'm thinking too hw issue. But once it starts to work it works perfectly even pressing the button lightly. If the phone's been idle for a while that's when it starts. But anyway, I'll do the basics, factory reset and then bring it over to the carrier shop. Hate to send it away as its not that long ago i got the phone.
Thanks for all the help/comments.
I just started having the same problem myself. I think I'm going good to buy the right now. For the power button and have it installed.
corpuscallosum said:
that's what I'm thinking too hw issue. But once it starts to work it works perfectly even pressing the button lightly. If the phone's been idle for a while that's when it starts. But anyway, I'll do the basics, factory reset and then bring it over to the carrier shop. Hate to send it away as its not that long ago i got the phone.
Thanks for all the help/comments.
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I am having the exact same problem , did you manage to solve it ?
No. But I've been using the phone less as in on holidays and noticed it hadn't been happening much. If issue still persists I'll bring the phone back to the carrier for a repair/replacement as it's still under warranty.
For the first few days power button worked occasionally now it has stopped working completely.
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kabuk1 said:
Do you have any xposed modules installed? I had this happen with either gravitybox or wanam when I tried to tinker with the power menus. *3.
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I have had wanam installed but I uninstalled it , also the phone failed the *0# test
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The working of button changes with temperature. With a little heating with hair dryer the button started working.
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I agree with the temperature because when I was in holidays the issue didn't happen and Iwas in a hot country with 35 deg C. Weird, so was my Note 4 built for Middle East?!?
My power button has started working 100% normal from falling the hw test earlier.
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I did a full factory reset and it appeared to work but after restoring all my apps and using it for a couple of days it started again. Brought it to the carrier to get it fixed as is still under warranty. They said it was a faulty "electrical component" which they replaced. Got the phone back and I restored all the apps. I have the problem again. I don't trust the carrier to have fixed the issue as it was intermitten in the first place. The button works continuously once it's stays working until I leave it aside for a while. I'll have to bring it back again and wait for a week!
I'll keep you posted.
^ blow some hot air with a hair dryer
My note 4 problem is whenever I remove the charger it went out and behave as it wants to start up and as soon as I replaced the charger I can turn it on and it stays on. Someone please help me with this

disable hardware buttons? (recent/back)

im using Ultimate Dynamic Navbar because when i replaced the screen on my note 4 i accidentally got too close to the buttons and cut the recent and back buttons. so they no longer work. i completely removed the buttons since i cut them. everything else works fine but for some reason when im charging the phone something is causing the back or recents button to be pressed. this only happens when im charging the phone and have the screen on. how can i disable the buttons? i already tried to do the Generic.kl commenting out (putting a # infront of each line) but that did not help (unless im not entering the the # on the correct line) and it didnt help. i still get the recent apps while charging the phone and the screen is on. anyone know of a way to disable it with another method?
D200P13 said:
im using Ultimate Dynamic Navbar because when i replaced the screen on my note 4 i accidentally got too close to the buttons and cut the recent and back buttons. so they no longer work. i completely removed the buttons since i cut them. everything else works fine but for some reason when im charging the phone something is causing the back or recents button to be pressed. this only happens when im charging the phone and have the screen on. how can i disable the buttons? i already tried to do the Generic.kl commenting out (putting a # infront of each line) but that did not help (unless im not entering the the # on the correct line) and it didnt help. i still get the recent apps while charging the phone and the screen is on. anyone know of a way to disable it with another method?
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Well I know that an xposed module called Xposed Additions can do it. Hopefully that will work in your case.
SiNJiN76 said:
Well I know that an xposed module called Xposed Additions can do it. Hopefully that will work in your case.
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i tried gravity box for Lollipop on the PACMAN rom which kinda helps. the thing is that the buttons seem to have swapped so im guessing its because of the rom. before it kept pressing the recents button now its pressing the back button. i also was able to see what was going on action wise as in long presses or double taps with gravity box. it seems that long presses is the most frequent cause of this issue but i also get a few double taps and single taps randomly. i tried to select no action for these events on the back button with half luck. gravity box does not have a do nothing action so the only thing i could do was do a custom action without selecting an app. but when it gets triggered i get a toast saying no such app, due to no app selected in gravity box. this is something ill bring up to the devs of gravity box. ill check out your suggestions and will reply back with the results, THANKS FOR THE REPLY!
D200P13 said:
i tried gravity box for Lollipop on the PACMAN rom which kinda helps. the thing is that the buttons seem to have swapped so im guessing its because of the rom. before it kept pressing the recents button now its pressing the back button. i also was able to see what was going on action wise as in long presses or double taps with gravity box. it seems that long presses is the most frequent cause of this issue but i also get a few double taps and single taps randomly. i tried to select no action for these events on the back button with half luck. gravity box does not have a do nothing action so the only thing i could do was do a custom action without selecting an app. but when it gets triggered i get a toast saying no such app, due to no app selected in gravity box. this is something ill bring up to the devs of gravity box. ill check out your suggestions and will reply back with the results, THANKS FOR THE REPLY!
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Yeah. Seems Xposed Additions will work then. It has actions for both Click and Long Press for all the hardware buttons with the Screen On/Off. It's basically a mod to do just that...remap the buttons or disable.
I use it to disable the Home button while the screen is off. Also to use the volume buttons for skipping songs while screen is off.
SiNJiN76 said:
Yeah. Seems Xposed Additions will work then. It has actions for both Click and Long Press for all the hardware buttons with the Screen On/Off. It's basically a mod to do just that...remap the buttons or disable.
I use it to disable the Home button while the screen is off. Also to use the volume buttons for skipping songs while screen is off.
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the only issue with it was that it would not save the settings when i restarted. but i did use it to see what key value back was and put a # in it and restarted. seems to have worked so far. i wonder why the additions wont stick after a reboot. hopefully if this works ill be able to choose which on screen buttons to select from the pacmans/gravity box or ultimate dynamics. each has its pros and cons.

Note 4 water damage back button not working can I still flash a new rom?

Hi all,
My Tmobile Note 4 had some water damage at the pen area. Water got in and the menu and back button stopped working. After some drying with hair dryer and in a bag of rice, the menu button work but not the back button. Sometimes when the screen is turn on the back button engage itself. Touching it won't work however. The back button would sometimes engage at random. I've been using a virtual back button.
My question is that can I still flash a new rom with a malfunction back button? With the back button sometime auto engage, will there be an issue? Should I leave it as is? It is still on 5.1.1.
Thanks.
daihung1 said:
Hi all,
My Tmobile Note 4 had some water damage at the pen area. Water got in and the menu and back button stopped working. After some drying with hair dryer and in a bag of rice, the menu button work but not the back button. Sometimes when the screen is turn on the back button engage itself. Touching it won't work however. The back button would sometimes engage at random. I've been using a virtual back button.
My question is that can I still flash a new rom with a malfunction back button? With the back button sometime auto engage, will there be an issue? Should I leave it as is? It is still on 5.1.1.
Thanks.
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Flash an AOSP rom you will get onscreen buttons like pixel devices.
I recommend resurrection remix rom nougat with nano google apps.
Trex888 said:
Flash an AOSP rom you will get onscreen buttons like pixel devices.
I recommend resurrection remix rom nougat with nano google apps.
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thanks for your reply. I'm concern that with the back button auto engaging at random when the screen is on, it will affect the rom flashing process? Or it might not matter if it is being flash via odin? I don't want the phone auto hit the back button while the rom is being installed.
Anyone foresee any issue with this?
daihung1 said:
thanks for your reply. I'm concern that with the back button auto engaging at random when the screen is on, it will affect the rom flashing process? Or it might not matter if it is being flash via odin? I don't want the phone auto hit the back button while the rom is being installed.
Anyone foresee any issue with this?
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In twrp recovery the hardware keys will not work so dont worry just flash the rom file and google apps package .
when rom boots up complete setup go to settings/configuration/buttons here you can disable hardware buttons and enable softkeys like pixel phones.
In recovery and odin download mode hardware keys will not take effect.

Note 3 capacitive buttons not working properly

So a while ago my screens LCD cracked and stopped working so forward a few months and I get a new screen, and everything was fine except for the fact that my menu and back buttons don't work. Because everyone I press the menu button, the little right click like options op open but then a second later the a finder opens. Everytime I trap the back button it does nothing, but if I tap the menu key then the back back button really fast then the menu stays open, I also noticed that if I press the back button with my s pen then it works.
I just really want to have the original features of my phone if anyone is having the same problem as me or just knows how to fix it please respond. Thank you

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