Hi all. I'm having a problem getting my tablet to stay powered off when it is docked with the keyboard. When I power the tablet off and close the lid, invariably it ends up turning itself back on. At first I thought something might have been hitting the (terribly placed) power button in my bag, but I discovered it happened when sitting flat on my desk with nothing near it. I suspect the reason is because the connection between the tablet and the KB dock is loose and the tablet tends to wobble slightly, but I have not tried to fix that as I don't want to damage anything. A few other posters talked about using foam tape in the joint to take up the excess space and tighten it up, so I might try that, but I was just curious if anyone else had experienced the same thing and what, if anything, was your fix (for the power issue).
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Hi there,
I've experienced the same problem during a flight. I turned the tablet before going the Xrays in the airport, and it was turned back on on the other side. I'm agreeing on the connector theory that might be lose, or something in the docks that trigger the power on. When the tablet is not on the dock, it won't power by itself.
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as the title says i was reading when the menu started showing and hiding again and again i tought was some book issues but when i got to the homescreen it began to run apps i had on it, i have no idea of the cause of this problem
I've had this same problem. I believe it's just the software and not a deficient screen. If you look over on the nookdevs website, there's a page about recalibrating the screen. I've tried it a couple of times and it's definitely improved it. Every now and then something wacky happens, but I guess that's to be expected when you let B&N develop for Android.
I had this happen myself once, and it was pretty annoying... If I didn't have adb available I don't think I could have fixed it until I did. I wasn't able to tap the screen myself, it was taping all over the place.
I did manage after a few minutes to get multitouch paint installed and it was drawing weird dots, lines, angles, etc...
I now have the recalibrate command in gscript but not sure I could run it while it's acting up. Luckily it's only happened once, and it happened while plugged in but never seen it happen again.
Happens a lot on my NC, and I think every time its because my kids touch it with dirty fingers (sweets, chocolate etc), smearing small amounts of dirt on the screen.
The screen goes nuts within few seconds, thinks its being clicked etc...
Wiping/cleaning the screen helps to resore normal behavior, btw - while the screen is moist it does not work for me at all...
Ordered screen protectors, lets see if it makes a differencel
My screen randomly goes nuts as well. It seems like a sudden, rather than a gradual thing. The screen sometimes gets pretty dirty, but cleaning it didn't seem to make much difference. Odd thing is, what DID make a difference was taking it out of the aftermarket case. I have no idea why this would work, but it does. One thing this case does is that it pushes the power and volume buttons in, as it uses four elastic straps at the corners. Maybe holding these buttons a certain way recalibrates the screen, and if you're touching it at the time, it freaks out?
I've noticed my screen only bugs out when I have it plugged into the charger.
As long as its unplugged, its fine. As soon as i pop in the cord, the screen goes haywire.
Only the wall charger though, not when its plugged into the USB on the computer.
My screen was doing that until I got a screen protector.
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Also, if you lock and unlock the NC it should stop acting funny.
I noticed that too. Mine hasn't gone REALLY nuts since I took it out of it's case, but sometimes when playing angry birds, it freaks out to the point where I can't play. Hitting the power button, and then hitting it again, and unlocking makes it normal. Wouldn't that indicate it's software instead of hardware? Maybe there's more than one problem?
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I noticed that too. Mine hasn't gone REALLY nuts since I took it out of it's case, but sometimes when playing angry birds, it freaks out to the point where I can't play. Hitting the power button, and then hitting it again, and unlocking makes it normal. Wouldn't that indicate it's software instead of hardware? Maybe there's more than one problem?
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Mine does the same thing every now and again. And like you, locking the screen and waking it back up fixes it every time. It's definitely software related.
Do your cases have a latch? With a magnet? Because I'm starting to think that may have something to do with it.
My case has a latch, but the magnet is not against the nook when I'm using it..
HotShotAzn said:
Do your cases have a latch? With a magnet? Because I'm starting to think that may have something to do with it.
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Heh, I've considered that.. Also considered the mystery sensor to the left of the Nook button too.. Nook is afraid of the dark.
Seriously though, with the CPU guvna' set to ondemand and wifi turned OFF before I power it off I haven't seen it reboot yet. It rebooted once yesterday and I know it had wifi left on as I had just been using it and didn't turn it off before it went to sleep.
So totally making up numbers here....
Default CPU governor + wifi on = 30% chance it's gonna reboot when it goes to sleep..
ondemand governor + wifi on = 20% chance it's gonna reboot
ondemand govenor + wifi off = <10% chance it's gonna reboot (not gonna even say 0 here.. heh)
RChadwick said:
My case has a latch, but the magnet is not against the nook when I'm using it..
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I tested this theory. When the Nook is in the case, I get crazy screen taps when i try to type something. Out of the case, its perfectly fine.
When I just rest the Nook on the open case (not inside the straps/holders), it will also get crazy screen taps.
One thing to note is I also did not have any problems before updating to 1.0.1. Not saying the update is the cause of the problem but its one of the variables.
Home button just stopped working. Its happened a couple of times before, but it comes back after a day or so. Is this a common problem on the ds7? I didn't find any mention of this anywhere.
If honeycomb have the button bar at the bottom when its released, this wont be a problem.
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Home button just stopped working. Its happened a couple of times before, but it comes back after a day or so. Is this a common problem on the ds7? I didn't find any mention of this anywhere.
If honeycomb have the button bar at the bottom when its released, this wont be a problem.
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I have never seen this problem, and have not heard about it before. Have you try to search for an app that remap button?
The home button is working again after I left it alone overnight and restarted it in the morning.
After thinking about it a bit, it seems that every time the home button stops working, it's after I take the Streak out in my jacket pocket. I think this may be a problem with static electricity, the screen have been rubbing against my jacket so it's always spotless when I take it out of my pocket. But why is only the home button affected?
Can anyone recommend a good anti-static case for the Streak 7?
EDIT: Spoke too soon, it seems on and off. But it's definitely static that caused this.
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The home button is working again after I left it alone overnight and restarted it in the morning.
After thinking about it a bit, it seems that every time the home button stops working, it's after I take the Streak out in my jacket pocket. I think this may be a problem with static electricity, the screen have been rubbing against my jacket so it's always spotless when I take it out of my pocket. But why is only the home button affected?
Can anyone recommend a good anti-static case for the Streak 7?
EDIT: Spoke too soon, it seems on and off. But it's definitely static that caused this.
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I'm using this case, it fit perfect because its made for the ds7. I don't know if its anti - static or not, but it close into a book like style. I'm not affiliated with this eBay seller, just using it for reference.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-T-MOBIL...580194?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item23128548e2
otnos said:
I'm using this case, it fit perfect because its made for the ds7. I don't know if its anti - static or not, but it close into a book like style. I'm not affiliated with this eBay seller, just using it for reference.
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I was eyeing this case too. But since the button is already broke, no point in getting a case now. Hopefully, this will be a non-issue once I install honeycomb since it'll have the action bar. Assuming it works just like 3.1 on a galaxy tab 10.1. In fact, I might be looking for a way to disable the hardware buttons.
vtinmanv said:
The home button is working again after I left it alone overnight and restarted it in the morning.
After thinking about it a bit, it seems that every time the home button stops working, it's after I take the Streak out in my jacket pocket. I think this may be a problem with static electricity, the screen have been rubbing against my jacket so it's always spotless when I take it out of my pocket. But why is only the home button affected?
Can anyone recommend a good anti-static case for the Streak 7?
EDIT: Spoke too soon, it seems on and off. But it's definitely static that caused this.
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I've had my screen itself be poor or nutty responsive behaviour, but I can almost always turn the screen off and back on and it fixes it. Usually happens when I pull it out of my pocket and it's either still partly in my pocket or my fingers are on the screen while turning it on. Seems all capacitive devices do a screen calibration on screen-on and it hoses it when it's being touched.
First off, I know there are multiple threads not only here on xda but elsewhere on the internet that describe other cases of Nexus One power button failures. I believe mine is different.
I suspect this has something to do with it being submerged in a cup of beer for a half a second a couple weeks back (never letting that person touch my phone again btw). It's very intermittent and has gotten progressively worse, to the point where I think it'll eventually die and at that point I'll need to turn the phone on some other way. I think somehow it is a "short" electrically inside the device. It can sit on my desk and randomly turn on and off by itself, as well as make the reboot/power off menu pop up, as if I'm holding down the power button. This makes using the phone extremely irritating, especially now, as the problem worsens. I can't do much in Recovery, at least CWM, because the power button either turns off the screen or goes to the previous menu. And while typing, the phone screen will either turn off, or the reboot menu will pop up, and I'll accidentally tap something else. Frustrating. My question is basically...is there a way to disable the power button without opening the device? I'm guessing probably not, but it's worth a shot...I purchased the phone in 04/2010, from a third party, and it's no longer under warranty. I was planning on waiting to get the Galaxy Nexus, and if not, the Samsung Galaxy S 4G. I've been dreading the day I need to retire my beloved Nexus One....and it looks like it's going to be sooner than I wanted.
Thanks for any replies.
Normally I would say there is probably still a little bit of water in the power button housing but since it was a few weeks back I doubt it. But I guess you could always try the bag of rice trick. If then I don't know and you may have to open it up :/
I had the same problem for about 5 months and it has sense sorted its self out without me doing anything. Now the power button functions 100% (knock on wood).
I had placed it top down in my cup holder while driving for 3 hours and had not noticed a bit of condensation from that mornings water glass. I got home, grabbed my phone, and noticed a wet spot on my pocket and my phone had water on the top. It was in the Case-mate case in my sig and I let it dry over night and it worked the next day after blow drying the inside. But a week later the power button was clicking on and off. That was the longest period of use my G1 has seen sense I bought my N1.
Some days it would go on for an hour+ and would wreck the battery life. I tried everything and was unable to find a way to disable the power button presses.
I did not open the phone even though it was a month out of warranty. My assumption is there was still some sort of moisture inside that was causing a short. Because you never had a warranty in the first place, I would say your best bet is to take it apart and let it sit in rice for at least a couple days.
I have had my Xperia Z3 compact for a bit over a year now, and experienced the "sudden death" problem a handful of times. The symptoms are pretty much the same as everyone else said: black screen, no response to power button, sometimes red light after plugging in but nothing on screen. Thankfully I have been able to revive it reliably by first holding Power + Vol Up for 20 seconds, release, then plugging in the charger.
After the last few incidents, though, I think I'm starting to see a pattern: the sudden death always happened after putting the phone on a metal surface. For example, the magnesium lid of my ThinkPad Yoga 460 laptop, or the (presumably steel) top of a washing machine. Every time I pick the Z3C up and notice it has died, it has always been lying on a metal surface before. However, it does not die every time I put it on a metal surface, so I can't reproduce the issue reliably.
I remember reading somewhere that the sudden death is caused by a hardware bug with power management. It sounds kinda plausible that being too close to a conducting surface may change the capacitance / inductance of something on the PCB just enough to trigger some kind of protection. So perhaps using a thick case may prevent sudden death by making the phone farther away from the surface it is placed on?
I've got a replacement screen that my friend had in his house. Mine was broken (both the display and the digitizer, the latter was acting very weird). I did the replacement myself, and when I was finally done, I noticed something. The Touch Screen wasn't working (I could see the image but no input was recognized). I tried opening it and checking every single cable to see if there was anything wrong, but there was nothing looking broken or out of place. When I was going to test it, I noticed another very weird thing. It actually works if I keep the back of the phone off (not the back interchangable cover, I mean the back of the phone that is screwed in place). The problem is that this phone has a very annoying design that makes it so the Wi-Fi, Speakers, Camera and some other stuff don't function well with the back plate off, speacially the Wi-Fi.
I trully have no idea what is happening or what is causing the problem with the touch screen, and have no idea why the back plate makes the screen act funny. Can someone please help me figure this out?
Perhaps something in the digitizer's flex cable is shorting with the back panel. Try putting a layer of electrical tape between the flex cable and the back panel.