Hi everyone, thought I'd share this one with you: I'm not quite sure if it is widely known, at least I haven't read of it anywhere and I am reading quite a lot about win mobile and the x1. So here it is: Pressing the win key on the keyboard twice (have to do it quickly) takes you to the today screen! Figured it out accidentally. Can save you 200 ms someday!
Heh, yeah i noticed that too a couple of months ago... don't remember why i did that, but i guess i just accidentally pressed the button and so pressed it quickly again to remove the menu, but instead i was taken to the today screen =) quite usefull and i've used it a couple of times since then.
noONExda said:
Heh, yeah i noticed that too a couple of months ago... don't remember why i did that, but i guess i just accidentally pressed the button and so pressed it quickly again to remove the menu, but instead i was taken to the today screen =) quite usefull and i've used it a couple of times since then.
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So does pressing the end key
yeah, but that sometimes also cancels/closes some programs/windows.
MJCS said:
So does pressing the end key
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Not on my phone (anymore). Don't know why...
I just tried the volume down + home + power button, just to see if it works...and it does. Now what do i do? Its got the android robot working, and says downlloading and Do not turn off target!!!....
what do i do now? Take out the battery?
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I just tried the volume down + home + power button, just to see if it works...and it does. Now what do i do? Its got the android robot working, and says downlloading and Do not turn off target!!!....
what do i do now? Take out the battery?
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then you are a happy man
*** do you your happy dance now ***
it means when worse case scenario happen, you can easily fix the phone
yes just turn it off by holding the power button, or take out the battery
battery way is faster
Singhman said:
I just tried the volume down + home + power button, just to see if it works...and it does. Now what do i do? Its got the android robot working, and says downlloading and Do not turn off target!!!....
what do i do now? Take out the battery?
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What?
You got into the Download mode....
That is used to flash with ODIN3.
If you are not using it to flash your device right now, you may Sir. turn off your device and boot it up again, or even remove the battery.
If you are flashing you should see by now a green bar growing on your screen. Do no turn off your phone by this time!
thanks guys...i just held the power button for 10 seconds, its ok (i was sort of scared that i might brick the phone if i pull the battery). Wow...this forum is awesome, I got responses almost instantly! Thanks
you sure it's green?
the last time i flashed mine was a purple download line going across the screen
ahh never mind, you were talking about the Odin3 side.
AllGamer said:
you sure it's green?
the last time i flashed mine was a purple download line going across the screen
ahh never mind, you were talking about the Odin3 side.
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No Sir.! I was actually talking about the bar which grows on our device screens, you sure it is Purple?
I was really convinced it was green, damn me
both times i loaded a new ROM it was purple going across the screen
either it's my eyes having colour problem, or you are, or maybe each devices really picks a colour at random
LOL
AllGamer said:
both times i loaded a new ROM it was purple going across the screen
either it's my eyes having colour problem, or you are, or maybe each devices really picks a colour at random
LOL
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Haha.
I will have a better look at it next time
mine was green......maybe its just how the phone is feeling at the moment?? haha
If it doesnot have the 3 button recovery, the white "samsung i9000m" splash screen will keep cycling over and over... when that happens do we do the same thing (remove battery or power off)?
I want to test a unit at a bell store before buying but dont want to "break" it.
If you are not in the process of flashing, a battery pull would do.
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Take out the battery and put back in. then switch your phone on. Sorted.
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lol, I must say I'm surprised about how gentle the replies are... And the fact there are already 12 of them (half of them being about the color of the status bar )
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lol, I must say I'm surprised about how gentle the replies are... And the fact there are already 12 of them (half of them being about the color of the status bar )
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Haha, you guys are awesome and full of patience to newbs like me. Thanks
I wasn't doing anything special with my Tab, just browsing some sites, put it away for maybe an hour, then brought it out. Hit the power button on the side and... nothing.
I held it, thinking maybe it turned off. I also charged it for a while, thinking maybe the battery turned off.
Nada.
Anyone experience something like this and have a fix?
Thanks in advance.
try a long press on the power button.. maybe 10 secs... it might have frozen on the last software and that will turn it completely off. let me know if it works.
nvm... as soon as i finished typing this, the damn thing roared back to life..
mod, please delete~!
rodnav said:
try a long press on the power button.. maybe 10 secs... it might have frozen on the last software and that will turn it completely off. let me know if it works.
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lol thanks anyways. it suddenly turned on for no reason >-<
didn't even press the buttons...
That has happened to me 2 or 3 times during the past one month. I guess it is a feature (!) of the Tab
marjibis said:
That has happened to me 2 or 3 times during the past one month. I guess it is a feature (!) of the Tab
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LOL neat feature.
I have had this happen too. I just held the power button down too for 5 secs and it worked.
I've had my power button become less useful over a week or so. Sometimes a push does NOT wake the tablet up. It seems I have to try several times to lock it and/or unlock it.
Anyone else have this problem?
no.
try, (if you have warranty) exchanging it.
or perhaps your pressing to hard.
most devices mow days only need a slight touch.
No issues here!
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No issues here either, use the warranty, its your right.
Dang. Lucky me! I might see if it gets better. I've got 90 days @ costco. Thanks!
You could use No Lock, that should let you wake it up with the volume keys.
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I've had my power button become less useful over a week or so. Sometimes a push does NOT wake the tablet up. It seems I have to try several times to lock it and/or unlock it.
Anyone else have this problem?
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i definitely have. seems like i have a waking problem if i let my xoom charge for a extended period of time (i.e overnight and forget to unplug it till my lunch break). idk if thats your problem too but i dont charge my xoom now until its basically dead and i havent had an issue since.
power button
I've had similar problems recently. Like in the last two days. I've had my xoom about 14 day a now. I've tried plugging it in and hitting power but it didn't work. Took several tries and holding for a while. Haven't tried a hard reset yet.
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I've had similar problems recently. Like in the last two days. I've had my xoom about 14 day a now. I've tried plugging it in and hitting power but it didn't work. Took several tries and holding for a while. Haven't tried a hard reset yet.
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Getting worse, this is annoying as hell.
My power button has been malfunctioning for about 2 months now. That isn't to say it is 100% dead, but at times it'll work if I smack the button about a few times, and sometimes it will be completely unresponsive. I have read up on the subject and found a thread with a response from a guy claiming to be an engineer who said the micro switches they use in these phones are somewhat weak and only work for a limited number of presses. Recently, I changed roms, and to my surprise the power button worked great for a short period of time. Since then, I've found that when my power button starts acting up, wiping the dalvik cache put it back to normal. This lead me to thinking, and I've come to believe it could very well be a hardware problem that is meant to happen. I am by no means a coder/programmer but I have studied it enough to know that certain code can be written for a device that sets a "timer" for a piece of hardware to die out or malfunction. If that's the case with this, then it makes sense somewhat that wiping the dalvik cache resets this timer for a short time. Anyone have any thoughts? Am I crazy tinfoil hat wearer or does this make some sense?
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My power button has been malfunctioning for about 2 months now. That isn't to say it is 100% dead, but at times it'll work if I smack the button about a few times, and sometimes it will be completely unresponsive. I have read up on the subject and found a thread with a response from a guy claiming to be an engineer who said the micro switches they use in these phones are somewhat weak and only work for a limited number of presses. Recently, I changed roms, and to my surprise the power button worked great for a short period of time. Since then, I've found that when my power button starts acting up, wiping the dalvik cache put it back to normal. This lead me to thinking, and I've come to believe it could very well be a hardware problem that is meant to happen. I am by no means a coder/programmer but I have studied it enough to know that certain code can be written for a device that sets a "timer" for a piece of hardware to die out or malfunction. If that's the case with this, then it makes sense somewhat that wiping the dalvik cache resets this timer for a short time. Anyone have any thoughts? Am I crazy tinfoil hat wearer or does this make some sense?
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I AGREE! I thought it broke a while ago but I did a complete wipe and put a brand new rom on it. Heck I almost sent it to Sammy but for some reason it stared working. I dont think its the dalvik cache though. I have a feeling its ClockworkMod Recovery because sometimes it says a key was disabled and I had problems after that. I couldnt lock my phone.
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My power button has been malfunctioning for about 2 monthsnow. That isn't to say it is 100% dead, but at times it'll work if I smack the button about a few times, and sometimes it will be completely unresponsive. I have read up on the subject and found a thread with a response from a guy claiming to be an engineer who said the micro switches they use in these phones are somewhat weak and only work for a limited number of presses. Recently, I changed roms, and to my surprise the power button worked great for a short period of time. Since then, I've found that when my power button starts acting up, wiping the dalvik cache put it back to normal. This lead me to thinking, and I've come to believe it could very well be a hardware problem that is meant to happen. I am by no means a coder/programmer but I have studied it enough to know that certain code can be written for a device that sets a "timer" for a piece of hardware to die out or malfunction. If that's the case with this, then it makes sense somewhat that wiping the dalvik cache resets this timer for a short time. Anyone have any thoughts? Am I crazy tinfoil hat wearer or does this make some sense?
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well, you solved your own theory in your statement. since when does smacking your phone equate to a software issue? my power button went in august, mostly. it started showing the behavior that you described about 4-6 weeks beforehand. i say mostly, because the physical button doesnt work anymore(rarely a response from it). but ive figured out how to work it to my advantage/needs. i can wake my phone by shaking it now, and put the screen to sleep. also can be done with a light smack in the right place on the back of the phone. but to be practicle, i remapped my search button to use as a power button and wake my phone with the volume button. really, the only hard part is navigating in the bootloader menu since the volume buttons wont work there with the power button broken. so ive learned to work it by lightly, very lightly, tapping on a certain place on the back of the phone near the power button. this "loosens" the volume buttons and lets me navigate the menu. then i tap the phone again to make a selection. this in no way indicates a software issue/conspiracy to me. when it just started displaying this behavior, i thought it might be a software issue too. but it turned out to be all physical damage.
You know, the funny thing about when it stops working is that it's never all at once.
It's a degrading process of malfunction until it takes repeated button pressing, not so much force, to work. After that it works so seldom that I'm forced to do something about it. It's for those reasons I think it's something more than a hardware problem.
From your experiences, even after a full wipe/new rom installation, your power button still doesn't work, if only for a brief time?
P.S. The new touch based recovery from team win works really well for those of us who can't use our power buttons
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@simms22
Hmm my guess is that there are multiple issues that result in a malfunctioning power button. Props to remapping your search button to lock your phone. It would be a great work around if my phone ever had this problem again. Have search to lock the phone and volume keys to wake it. I'm unsure how you remapped your search button though. Maybe you can tell me how?
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P.S. The new touch based recovery from team win works really well for those of us who can't use our power buttons
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Agreed! If you have no access to a computer with adb/fastboot control the touch ClockWorkMod recovery would be very useful.
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You know, the funny thing about when it stops working is that it's never all at once.
It's a degrading process of malfunction until it takes repeated button pressing, not so much force, to work. After that it works so seldom that I'm forced to do something about it. It's for those reasons I think it's something more than a hardware problem.
From your experiences, even after a full wipe/new rom installation, your power button still doesn't work, if only for a brief time?
P.S. The new touch based recovery from team win works really well for those of us who can't use our power buttons
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ive been using twrp recovery for a while. even the non touch version has a no power button option. but i dont believe that theres anything else but hardware issues here. it is a degradation. at first it comes and goes, later it mostly just comes( ) and doesnt go. i can even hear a slight rattle in the power button area now if i shake the phone.
about after flashing.. at first, 50% of the time it would work after flashing, but it was just coincidence. but now no. btw, i flash many times a day, even then when it first started acting funny. flashing, wiping, it just doesnt make a difference, its coincidence.
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Hmm my guess is that there are multiple issues that result in a malfunctioning power button. Props to remapping your search button to lock your phone. It would be a great work around if my phone ever had this problem again. Have search to lock the phone and volume keys to wake it. I'm unsure how you remapped your search button though. Maybe you can tell me how?
Agreed! If you have no access to a computer with adb/fastboot control the touch ClockWorkMod recovery would be very useful.
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ButtonRemapper app, available here on xda for free http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9399440&postcount=1
you want v0241. i have all the power button functionality with my search key except waking the device(volume rocker wakes my device). short press screen off, long press power menu, long press plus volume down for screenshots.
@tw1tchy, I totally agree it is multiple factors, which is why I can only speak for myself based on my experiences, although your overall experience seems to be similar to mine.
@simms22, I have never noticed a rattle in my phone, its likely that you and I have different causes attributed to the power button failure.
Not trying to beat a dead horse but just for the sake of being thorough, have you tried ODIN? I noticed a substantial difference when I ODIN'ed back to stock.
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Me everytime I drop my phone on concrete my battery door opens and the battery falls of my phone...And you know what's the most odd part ...I get scratches on my phone when I pick it up .....Does anyone else gets this ??
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I really like my Nexus S, but I kinda hope this power button self destruct kicks in soon. I see it as a feature - to make buying a Galaxy Nexus easier to justify. Good looking out Sammy.
I've had a similar problem for the last 4 months or so. It started when I dropped my nexus without the cover onto concrete floor. Not good I know.
But anyway...ever since then the power button been funny. Sometimes it didn't work at all and I couldn't turn the screen off and on. It was really bad. It took a while but now I kind of know how to handle it. Still annoying mind u.
Basically with mine the trick is to press the button really really hard towards the top end and it works fine. I've also noticed what some others are saying about changing rooms and doing resets etc. It seems to help as well.
But yeah...I still love my nexus. Lol. I think by me dropping it is the reason for my problems. It probably landed badly and loosened some part of the connection in that section or something. But as I said...all Is good now that I know the trick to it.
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I've had my NS since Christmas Eve 2009 and the power button completely stopped working 2 days ago. I did notice over the past few weeks that it wasn't responding properly. TBH, my NS has been through a LOT in the past 14-months (multiple impacts, spillages, kids etc), I'm surprised it's lasted this long
I'm now using the ButtonRemapper app to use 'search' as the power button. Works great! Plus my volume keys wake the phone up so all is ok.
I love my NS and wish I bought another one when CPW had them for £150 sim free!
It might be time for me to let go of the NS , just have to decide which phone is next (but thats for another thread lol)
ugh mine is under a year old. im very angry that this happened so quickly. im gonna try giving samsung a call. hopefully the will replace it. i shouldn't have to hack my phone in order to make it usable.
@rener78 You seem to have a vast misunderstanding of how sarcasm works. Just as future reference, posting dry, tasteless irony up on the internet as a smart-mouthed statement of ill will is about as practical as a chocolate teapot.
@staplebox Lol! Well played, sir or madam. I can't say posting a thread containing the words conspiracy theory doesn't grant me at least a well placed snarky comment. Although to be fair, I was kinda bored when I wrote it.
@ALL Yes, I get it, we've all dropped our phones before. I guess I expected a bit more from Sammy since my little old HTC hero that I beat halfway to hell is still going strong, while I pampered this nexus and its already giving me problems >1 year in but that's a whole different discussion I suppose.
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great mine just went out yesterday... had mine for a ltl over a year now.
No tapping certain areas or anything works.
I did notice it slowly degrade over the past few weeks.
I used the fix my power button app so my volume keys wake up my phone, but sometimes after using that 5 or 6 times it will stop working too so i have to plug my phone in the charger to turn it on. Is there another way of getting the volume keys to act as a wake button??
edit: i'm gonna try out that button remapper i saw in an earlier post.
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great mine just went out yesterday... had mine for a ltl over a year now.
No tapping certain areas or anything works.
I did notice it slowly degrade over the past few weeks.
I used the fix my power button app so my volume keys wake up my phone, but sometimes after using that 5 or 6 times it will stop working too so i have to plug my phone in the charger to turn it on. Is there another way of getting the volume keys to act as a wake button??
edit: i'm gonna try out that button remapper i saw in an earlier post.
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if you are using an ics rom go to the main settings, security, lockscreen.. now disable the lockscreen. you can now wake your device with the volume button. its a feature built into ics.
interesting did not know this. Thanks, I think I'm still gonna use the button remapper to change the function of the search key to the power so I can reboot and stuff and go into recovery and such easier since i'm running cm9.
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interesting did not know this. Thanks, I think I'm still gonna use the button remapper to change the function of the search key to the power so I can reboot and stuff and go into recovery and such easier since i'm running cm9.
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thats what i do. my search button has all the features of the power button but being able to wake the device.
Here's another question what if i need to pull the battery?? I'm rooted and running CM9 what if i go into a boot loop and i need to pull the battery with no charger around (i know how to do it with a charger) would the button remap solve this?
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Here's another question what if i need to pull the battery?? I'm rooted and running CM9 what if i go into a boot loop and i need to pull the battery with no charger around (i know how to do it with a charger) would the button remap solve this?
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no. the button remapper app doesnt do anything when off or the screens off. honestly, i no boot many times a week(because i test the trinity kernel as its being developed before release), ive figured out a system of light taps near the power button to let the volume buttons let me scroll, and to select in the bootloader.so for me its a non issue. to power up from being powered up, i dont do anything. a, pluging in powers it. b, tapping the back powers it when no usb is available. c, it powers up by itself usually, seconds to a few minutes after powering off.
Being a heavy user of my nexus s since July 2011, the power button died last Sunday.
One of the most important problems i had after that was that i was unable to lock bootloader before giving the mobile to samsung service, because the stuck power button caused problems to fastboot commands and the bootloater usage(menu) in general.
Finally i decided to go to the service and give the phone. The result was that in about an hour they replaced the button and gave me back the mobile. The repair was covered by the 2 years warranty and the unlocked bootloader did not cause any problem to that.
Up to now i have a "brand new" nexus s and i hope that the new button will last much longer.