Hello! Im having problem with power button in my Galaxy S3 Mini. I wanted to take a screenshot and suddenly power button stopped working. I thought it was some software bug so I decide to restart phone by removing battery, but now I can't turn on my phone because power button still not working I wanted to enter to download mode to reboot phone, but download mode is not working too. I have tried to turn on phone without using power button (some battery/charger tricks) but its not working. I have no idea what else can I do? When I plug in USB cabel I can see battery level, but thats all. Any ideas? Please help, I need to turn on this phone till tommorow
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Hello gents
My power button doesn't work when my device is on.
I know its not a physical problem because when I pull out the battery then put it back in and hold the power button, the device turns on.
It only doesn't work when the device is on.
Tried holding it down for a while but nothing.
My device is not rooted.
I am on 4.0.4
thanks
i had the similar problem first my power button stopped working sometimes, then my phone started to restart automatically sometimes , then frequently, then daily and finally i got a free replacement of motherboard
same here
phone restarts by itself too
And also my internal clock was not functioning properly
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda app-developers app
I just discovered yesterday that my power button seem to be not working. Pressing it doesnt lock the screen and long pressing it doesnt bring up the power options. Tried wiping everything and still the issue remains. When I pull my battery and then insert it back the phone boots itself, as if the power button is pressed all the time (even though i can still click it and its not stuck). Ive been using rom toolbox for the power menu but choosing to turn off the phone makes my phone have a screen freeze, all other options work like reboot, fast reboot, reboot recovery etc. Anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: After a couple of days my power button is working again
Kcube989 said:
I just discovered yesterday that my power button seem to be not working. Pressing it doesnt lock the screen and long pressing it doesnt bring up the power options. Tried wiping everything and still the issue remains. When I pull my battery and then insert it back the phone boots itself, as if the power button is pressed all the time (even though i can still click it and its not stuck). Ive been using rom toolbox for the power menu but choosing to turn off the phone makes my phone have a screen freeze, all other options work like reboot, fast reboot, reboot recovery etc. Anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: After a couple of days my power button is working again
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How did you get it to work? Or did it started working on it's on? Thanks
I've seen that happen on mine, due to a bad USB charge port. Replaced it, problem disappeared.
Any chance your device sometimes thinks it is docked to a docking station?
Inexpensive part to obtain, less than 10 dollars (usd), takes about 15 minutes or less to replace.
In the 2+ years I've had mine, I've gone through 4 of them LOL...I'm hard on charge ports I guess.
Kcube989 said:
I just discovered yesterday that my power button seem to be not working. Pressing it doesnt lock the screen and long pressing it doesnt bring up the power options. Tried wiping everything and still the issue remains. When I pull my battery and then insert it back the phone boots itself, as if the power button is pressed all the time (even though i can still click it and its not stuck). Ive been using rom toolbox for the power menu but choosing to turn off the phone makes my phone have a screen freeze, all other options work like reboot, fast reboot, reboot recovery etc. Anyone know how to fix this?
Edit: After a couple of days my power button is working again
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It just started working again. When I turned off my phone to place my sim back and it didnt boot up automatically, I knew the power button is working again. Pressed the power button, device booted up and the issue is gone. I dont know if mh device thinks its docked, i dont have a docking station and ive never had problems with my charging port yet.
I've been using my N7000 for 2 years and this thing happened for 3-4 times. The lock button will be like stop working, sometimes it is like being press all the time and the problem will be sorted out by itself. Normally when this happens, the phone will be laggy and will reboot by itself. Is it a common thing for this phone?how do you get your phone fixed Kcube989?
Hello, well as of yesterday my N7000's power button started acting up, first i got lots of sudden reboots (probably the 8-second powerbutton hardware reboot) and a few hours later my power button stopped working al-togetter.
I've seen some youtube videos where people with the same defect-powerbutton (tho on another samsung device) show how to turn on their device by plugging it in the usb charger and emediatly press volume down+ the home button.
My device is still turned on but it'd be a bit tricky to try that out myself.
I am curious if that works on our devices too, if anyone could test this method; thank you so much.
Any other methods/advice is very welcome
Kind regards.
(Device is running android 4.4.4: Omnirom)
try this (works for me) : place battery in the phone, hold (and keep held) vol - button and insert usb.. it should take you to the warning screen before download mode, where you can press vol - to reboot.
Hello.
I have managed to brick my I8190N, by installing TWRP through this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmz.soft.twrpmanager&hl=en
I can't access recovery, download mode, and I cant even get the phone to boot. When I hold down the power button, it displays the S3 Mini logo for a few seconds and then blacks out. After that, it wont show anything on the display even when I hold down the power button. But when I pull the battery and reinsert it, I can turn it on again for a few seconds.
The problem started with me installing Virginity V14 over CM 5.1.1 Then i couldn't get it to recovery mode anymore so I thought i'd reinstall recovery through TWRP MANAGER app from google play store. After that the phone went bricked. Also, my Home button and back button are not working, because the flex cable is broken. I used virtual buttons to emulate these. Now I've hears that you could get to download mode when holding vol dn + home+ power although i've gotten there with vol dn + power buttons before. So I would like to know shall I order new buttons from ebay, or what else are my possibilities of getting the phone working again.
ty in advance.
Fix the buttons!!
Fix the buttons dude!!
Hi,
This morning I woke up, my phone was locked on the screensaver, nothing was happening at all. So I har shut it down by keeping the power button pressed.
Since then, I can't turn it on anymore and it does basically nothing. I tried a hard reboot with power button and volume down (and tried also with volume up or both at the same time).
I also tried to plug it in the charger or in the computer but nothing happen at all.
I don't understand, it was working perfectly fine, I have no idea about what to do.
Thanks for any help.
Does it load the miui logo or it doesn't even light up at all?
If it doesn't turn on at all, then that has got to be a hardware issue and you gotta go for repair, if it does load the miui logo, then I can try and help you