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Anyone else having problems with there menu button?

Lately my menu button has not been registering when i touch it. i have to touch it several times to get it to register. Also some times it brings up the search option.
Either this just started today or i just started to notice it. Its annoying.
Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes the Home button has quit working unless it is pressed a dozen times or so. Any fix???

My home is getting harder to use... Yes there is a fix and it sucks, exchange it.

No problems here. Picked up the phone on launch day and my buttons are working the same as they were out of the box.

My phone did the same, the home button stopped working had to click it multiple times for it to register.just exchange the phone. My new one had been great, every button registers on the first click
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All I noticed is if the bottom buttons are off I have to touch them once to turn them on, then after they are on they register the first time.
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The only time my buttons don't register is when the phone is doing something else at the same time (and that's very rare). It feels kind of like when my computer is doing a backup and it slows everything else down.
Can anyone confirm that these button issues happen when nothing else is running in the background?

Pneumatic said:
The only time my buttons don't register is when the phone is doing something else at the same time (and that's very rare). It feels kind of like when my computer is doing a backup and it slows everything else down.
Can anyone confirm that these button issues happen when nothing else is running in the background?
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Yes I can. I can take my phone in an awake but not busy and apply the same pressure to each key... All buttons except the home key vibrate and cause an action to occur. The home key I have to push much harder.

I noticed the home button lagging or you have to press it harder when running the Samsung widget Buddies now. If you have that widget running, delete it and the home works like a champ again.
I actually find the widget helpful for a favorites contacts so I'll continue to run it and just press home a little harder.

Here we go... video taken with a Vibrant of a vibrant showing the home button issue. When I hold the phone the problem is not as bad as the vid makes out. Vid makes it look like the button never works. It does but it takes some effort.
One thing to note. Home button action on home screen should bring up preview of all home screens.
Don't forget to watch in stunning 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erCVddGkHLE

Well the home buton issue started with me just now. Worked fine until then on my unrooted, non screen protected vibrant. Other soft keys work fine, but all the sudden home is not working half the time.
Just wanted to let other know that its not an out of the box issue but a developing problem.
Update: after ranting about the issue and showing several people my broken phone, I enabled the GPS and the issue disappeared while trying to show another person my issue. I disabled the GPS and the issue is still not present. SO I don't know if its was just coincidence but maybe its just a software bug. Keep in mind that a power cycle of the handset did not affect the home key working.

Thanks for everyone that posted. Looks like the majority is having issues w the home button. My Home button is working totally fine.
Anyway, my menu button started working again for a while, but its back to being buggy.
It seems to me to be a software issue.
What a pain, i already done a ton of customizations. I'm going to see what happens over the weekend. If the problem continues, i guess i'll unroot it and return it.

My home button works perfectly fine... but the search button doesn't work 1/2 the time @[email protected] I hope it's a software problem >.>; don't feel like going to the store to exchange
*edit* Okay I really think it's a software problem now because when the backlight is on for the search button, it would not respond 1/2 of the time. When the backlight is off, the search button works perfectly fine. I hope they fix this ^^;

When I first got the phone I had issues with the menu button. I had to use the whole pad of my thumb instead of the tip of my finger like the other buttons. The second day I had the phone it all worked fine and had continued to work. Definitely seems like software issue to me.
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I concur about it being software related. I have the home button problem, and when it isn't working right (comes and goes), it always seems to have different quirks, including the one where it doesn't respond while the light is on and does as soon as it turns off. One thing is for sure...it's ruining my otherwise almost perfect experience with this phone. --and it worries me, because if it's software, getting it replaced isn't going to solve the problem. --and if I wait until the problem is discovered and fixed, I'll be past the return period for the phone, I'm afraid. I think all the people returning the phones are not addressing the real problem, and it may delay the process of finding a real fix. Does anyone know if Samsung is aware of this issue and have addressed it like they have for the gps? If not, how does one clue them in?
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I concur about it being software related. I have the home button problem, and when it isn't working right (comes and goes), it always seems to have different quirks, including the one where it doesn't respond while the light is on and does as soon as it turns off. One thing is for sure...it's ruining my otherwise almost perfect experience with this phone. --and it worries me, because if it's software, getting it replaced isn't going to solve the problem. --and if I wait until the problem is discovered and fixed, I'll be past the return period for the phone, I'm afraid. I think all the people returning the phones are not addressing the real problem, and it may delay the process of finding a real fix. Does anyone know if Samsung is aware of this issue and have addressed it like they have for the gps? If not, how does one clue them in?
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I think its a ground issue. Put phone down and search is hard to get to respond, pick it up works everytime....
Also have you a link to samsungs statement on GPS?

Yeah they have a lot of bugs to work out when they update this, lol.

temperbad said:
I think its a ground issue. Put phone down and search is hard to get to respond, pick it up works everytime....
Also have you a link to samsungs statement on GPS?
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I sure hope it isnt a ground issue. That would be hard to fix with software. I am afraid you are right though as my issue came back.

I'm not so sure about a ground issue. No problem whatsoever for 5 days in any situation, and then it hardly works in any situation? Seems like software. And no, sorry I don't have a link to Samsung re: gps. I just know I've seen a couple times in a few places that they have acknowledged the issue and are working on a fix.
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DesignDawg said:
I'm not so sure about a ground issue. No problem whatsoever for 5 days in any situation, and then it hardly works in any situation? Seems like software. And no, sorry I don't have a link to Samsung re: gps. I just know I've seen a couple times in a few places that they have acknowledged the issue and are working on a fix.
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Cool thanks. Yea I hope they send a update soon there a few minor things they need to get ironed out..
Hopefully it is software... heck maybe a bad apparently installed?

Google maps keeps force closing

hey guys, I don't know what happened but about 30 min ago, every time I try to open Google Maps I get the Force close notification.....anybody have any ideas of how I can fix this? I tried restarting the phone and uninstalling and reinstalling updates but nothing has helped

It's happening to me too. Started about an hour ago. It doesn't happen every time, but pretty often. Since we're not alone, it sounds like google has changed something server side that's sending data that kills the client.

oh pheww.....I thought I was alone lol
not to seem like an a-hole and be happy it's happening to you....but just sayin....haha

Thanks... I was a little worried myself, I installed the wifi tethering mod earlier today and thought I might have screwed the phone up.

Weird! Just started happening to me too. Thanks god for this forum and the search button, because I almost just began the nightmare of trying to figure out which new app or kernel I installed was causing this issue. Guess ill wait now since I'm not the only one. It's probably a Google server causing a problem.....

Same here, just started a little bit ago ... I don't think I can leave the house safely if I don't have access to google maps!$%!
edit: Just a possible fix ... I uninstalled and reinstalled and so far so good...

Are you guys using a modified rom?
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I uninstalled/reinstalled didn't help, but if I use WiFi it works fine. Weird.

Me too, except worse - my entire phone freezes up and I have to pull the battery. Not an east or safe thing to do while driving. Started happening about a week ago. Anybody know why?

Forgot to say. Stock ROM on my Vibrant.

shrasmyl said:
Forgot to say. Stock ROM on my Vibrant.
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Stock Rom here too. Just started doing this to me today also, but only when I use it on the wifi on 3g its fine.

uninstall the google maps update and it will work for now. Google broke it and they will fix it.

Elite GunnerX said:
uninstall the google maps update and it will work for now. Google broke it and they will fix it.
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Yeah thats what I did.

Same here...Stock Rom started doing this a couple hours ago.
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RIP my beloved rooted G1

Same is happening to me...rooted with stock rom. I kind of stop using google maps because of gps issue.
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Have you guys tried factory data wipe and reset?
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I got the crash only when WiFi was turned on . I uninstalled all the updates and am not getting it anymore.

Mine not forcing close, but a black screen "force me to shut down and boot the phone manually".
Everytime I opened google map with GPS on, the phone hanged and I needed to long press the power button to boot..

That is an issue I have seen with lag fix installed...i had to odin back to stock install lag fox then install apps...fixed all my fc issues on stock and other roms...anyways food for thought.
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Updated today but still black screen when GPS is on...need to restart the phone manually everytime!!

nexus not vibrating anymore

hi everyone sorry if it might be a repetitive issue but I've Googled it and nobody seemed to have my same problem. phone is not vibrating anymore. It was working fine on my desk I picked it up and I noticed that texting doesn't give me the haptic feedback anymore. went through all the settings nothing. I tried to switch from silence to vibration mode to make it vibrate. nothing. Downloaded apps of the kind (tap to vibrate) and it didn't work either. I don't see how the sensor or whatever it is got broken by standing still on my desk.? any suggestions? I've already has this problem with my old nexus 4 but it got solved by itself. This time is getting longer than usual without fixing itself..
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hi everyone sorry if it might be a repetitive issue but I've Googled it and nobody seemed to have my same problem. phone is not vibrating anymore. It was working fine on my desk I picked it up and I noticed that texting doesn't give me the haptic feedback anymore. went through all the settings nothing. I tried to switch from silence to vibration mode to make it vibrate. nothing. Downloaded apps of the kind (tap to vibrate) and it didn't work either. I don't see how the sensor or whatever it is got broken by standing still on my desk.? any suggestions? I've already has this problem with my old nexus 4 but it got solved by itself. This time is getting longer than usual without fixing itself..
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did you try rebooting?

yes twice
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Could it be an app you installed? especially as you mentioned it has happened before on your old n4.

The fact that you have to wait for it to fix itself is kinda worrying. I think your vibration motor could be dodgy. Could try ringing Google and see if they have any tips? If not you could RMA?

I am sorry for bumping old threads, but it seems like I have had exactly the same issue. It has happened to me 4 or 5 times. I've noticed that vibration disapears after some very intensive cpu activities that makes both cpu and battery significantly warmer than usual...for example doing nand backup and then restore another backup and after short period of time let's say performing a clean installation. Vibration "comes back" after a while. Sometimes it takes half an hour sometimies one or two hours.
This is a very annoying issue. I'd go directly to retailer, but it makes no sense in such circumstances. Mostly due to lazyness of our service guys here. They don't do any effort to reproduce the problem and won't do the thing if they see vibration working as it should. (I am pretty sure that even if I leave device with "sleeping" vibration it will "wake up" when the service guy boots the device.) I guess I am gonna have to wait until vibration dies for good.
Anyway
bellasahbella
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can you please post how you solved your vibration issue. Did you get replacement or did vibration start to work again as it used to do before?

Follow these steps Fix Vibrate - Nexus 4

[Q] Black screen when quickly pushing lock

I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my new Verizon GS5.
Scenario: I am doing something such as reading a text, decide I'm done and lock the screen, and then a second or two later realize I forget to check something and hit the lock button again to turn it back on. Most of the time when I do this the physical buttons will light up but the screen will stay black, and a few seconds later the physical buttons will turn off. This will happen a few times until finally the screen turns on and I see the lock screen.
I had a similar issue with my Galaxy Nexus (rooted and running Kit Kat) phone prior to the GS5 and figured it was my old hardware- is this some Kit Kat bug?
Thanks for any input

Same issue here. But I can't figure out if it was due to switching to ART or not.

We can wait others reply with this i hope someone will post a tip on this kind of problem.

I switched to art after installing apps and I'm ha ing this issue didn't really play with phone much until after switching to ART. Is anyone having this issue not on ART?
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kameleongt said:
I switched to art after installing apps and I'm ha ing this issue didn't really play with phone much until after switching to ART. Is anyone having this issue not on ART?
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Yes this is happening to me running Dalvik.

Happened just now to me. It has happened a few times.
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Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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tehgyb said:
Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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Is it kind of bugged?

Lodaserves said:
Is it kind of bugged?
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This is actually becoming quite an annoyance to me and happens very often. I'm still on Dalvik. Could this be caused by an app?
I feel like half the time I go to use my phone the screen doesn't turn on.

tehgyb said:
Had this a time or two. It's like the power button doesn't register or something. Yes I switched to art.
I have found though that if I hold power for a second it pretty much fixes itself without having to do anything crazy like yanking the battery or restarting the phone.
Imo: not a big deal, doesn't seem to happen a lot for me.
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I'm having the same issue for the past two days; although, I am not switching between apps or anything (only trying to use the phone). No display, but get sound/vibration from buttons and LED lights from soft keys. Unfortunately, both times required me to yank the battery. My S5 is completely stock (not using ART) and have manually reinstalled my apps from old device. Any suggestions?

I am not experiencing this and I have switched to ART...

Lodaserves said:
I think your phone have a problem and others don't have this kind of problem.
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I hope this isn't the case. Once again I experienced these EXACT same issues with my Galaxy Nexus running 4.4.2. I can't help but think it might be some app causing it since not everyone has it.

I am noticing this every once in a while. But it's mostly right after I shut the screen off after a large processed app or task, and then remember something I forgot to do and try and turn it back on and there is some lag bringing up the screen again.

Black screen when quickly pushing lock
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Try to ask the person where you bought it.
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I was about to return my S5 to Verizon for this very reason. I haven't switched to art and have been having the screen go black on me, you can tell the phone is on because the physical buttons are lit. It seems to happen to me alot when I take the phone off the charger and hit the on button. I will hear the phone rebooting, but not see the boot animation. Thats when I do a battery pull. Holding the button doesn't do it. I also have had a few random reboots. Thats ok...I'm going to try every root method under the sun..gggrrrr..lol

I've started to try to uninstall apps to see if I can narrow down the issue. It still plagues me at least half the time I try to use my phone.

This is happening to me as well. Not as often. I'd say once a day, but I have to pull my battery to restart it. I did 2 factory resets and am now using a new google account as per verizons request and I added apps slowly. I have been fine until I put a second launcher on. I installed the GEL launcher but did not use it just to see if having multiple launchers could cause this glitch. Could it be this? Is everyone else using a different launcher? Also the only time I ever had it happen while messing with the phone was two times while working in light flow. Any one else connected to those two happenings? Trying to narrow down what could be causing this.

Running ART here, I'm not sure if I'm getting this problem, but I have realized some latency from pressing either the home or power button and the screen turning on. Not sure what causes that lag, but it's a good almost full second whereas my S4 would be instant

eagle132 said:
I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my new Verizon GS5.
Scenario: I am doing something such as reading a text, decide I'm done and lock the screen, and then a second or two later realize I forget to check something and hit the lock button again to turn it back on. Most of the time when I do this the physical buttons will light up but the screen will stay black, and a few seconds later the physical buttons will turn off. This will happen a few times until finally the screen turns on and I see the lock screen.
I had a similar issue with my Galaxy Nexus (rooted and running Kit Kat) phone prior to the GS5 and figured it was my old hardware- is this some Kit Kat bug?
Thanks for any input
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I would assume this is NOT the physical hardware issue, but the software, I heard somewhere that Samsung version of KitKat 4.4.2 is quite buggy and glitchy.

Njzkrish said:
Same issue here. But I can't figure out if it was due to switching to ART or not.
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I had the issue before and after switching to ART

Anyone have any further ideas yet? I'm not running ART bit I was able to have it happen again when I had Google experience launcher installed. Removed it and it hasn't happened for two days. I'm installing Google launcher again now to see if that was causing the issue.
Anyone else with further developments?

HELP little red sensor(?) always on next to front camera idk why

Hello all!
Yesterday I was 9gagging in my bed, and I noticed that little led started constantly lighting. Tried 2-3x to reboot but nothing happened, after the startup it started to light again... https://imgur.com/a/m4FK9lC You can see it in the picture.
Other question:
My screen rotation is also bugged. Tried to fix that with those reboots, but again nothing happened. I can not rotate my phone. (Only youtube fullscreen rotates the image, anything else stays horizontal)
Maybe its time for a ROM? The system starting to fall apart, had numerous random reboots etc. But I am afraid that with the ROM, a I will have a lot of other problems, like bluetooth and wifi not working together, camera is gonna be ****ty without LG's app.
What should i do?

AlienAnarchy said:
Hello all!
Yesterday I was 9gagging in my bed, and I noticed that little led started constantly lighting. Tried 2-3x to reboot but nothing happened, after the startup it started to light again... https://imgur.com/a/m4FK9lC You can see it in the picture.
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That is the proximity sensor, and it is a normal behavior, otherwise it couldn't do its job

Yeah i know, but it should not light 24/7 and it did not light 24/7 before. Its a weird bug. And its really annoying... Especially at night...

Have you tried factory reset? Ib know it's the easy answer but I think it's the best in your case.
Anyway, it seems like a hardware issue, so if it persists after factory reset, I would send the phone to repair (i hope is still under warranty)

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AlienAnarchy said:
Yeah i know, but it should not light 24/7
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Yes it does. It turns off AOD in your pocket, raise-to-pick-up, screen off when in call.
There are a lot of actions connected to this sensor.
Btw, mine is also on all the time.
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AlienAnarchy said:
Hello all!
Yesterday I was 9gagging in my bed, and I noticed that little led started constantly lighting. Tried 2-3x to reboot but nothing happened, after the startup it started to light again... https://imgur.com/a/m4FK9lC You can see it in the picture.
Other question:
My screen rotation is also bugged. Tried to fix that with those reboots, but again nothing happened. I can not rotate my phone. (Only youtube fullscreen rotates the image, anything else stays horizontal)
Maybe its time for a ROM? The system starting to fall apart, had numerous random reboots etc. But I am afraid that with the ROM, a I will have a lot of other problems, like bluetooth and wifi not working together, camera is gonna be ****ty without LG's app.
What should i do?
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Do you use automatic brightness?

blackhawk_LA said:
Have you tried factory reset? Ib know it's the easy answer but I think it's the best in your case.
Anyway, it seems like a hardware issue, so if it persists after factory reset, I would send the phone to repair (i hope is still under warranty)
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Just tried factory reset now for the rotation bug, it looks like I somehow totally broke it. I used pixel live wallpapers, especially the Zion national park one which used the accelerometer constantly. Tried a numerous kind of calibration apps, and all of them failed.
Totally hopeless now, i have to use a ****ty app to rotate my screen every time :/

blackhawk_LA said:
Have you tried factory reset? Ib know it's the easy answer but I think it's the best in your case.
Anyway, it seems like a hardware issue, so if it persists after factory reset, I would send the phone to repair (i hope is still under warranty)
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Yes it does. It turns off AOD in your pocket, raise-to-pick-up, screen off when in call.
There are a lot of actions connected to this sensor.
Btw, mine is also on all the time.
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Thanks for the answer, any idea about the accelerometer problem. (After factory reset its still not working)