Is your power button hard to press? - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

It seems my power button is hard to press. There's not much of a click so I sometimes I don't know if I pressed it. I wonder I need a replacement.
How's the power button on your Nexus 4?
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crossover37 said:
It seems my power button is hard to press. There's not much of a click so I sometimes I don't know if I pressed it. I wonder I need a replacement.
How's the power button on your Nexus 4?
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Um... it's easy to press and it ' clicks ' for me.

Foxy Roxy said:
Um... it's easy to press and it ' clicks ' for me.
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crossover37 said:
It seems my power button is hard to press. There's not much of a click so I sometimes I don't know if I pressed it. I wonder I need a replacement.
How's the power button on your Nexus 4?
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a little on the soft / mushy side. requires a focused press for sure. in the official bumper however there is a satisfying click.

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I have the same...issue? It's not so much an issue as it is something I wish were a little different.
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Can't tell you, Google still has my phone

By hard to press you mean hard to find?
Takes sometime to get used to the button position, you know.

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PGM Nexus will hopefully be updated to support the n4 soon; awesome application!

No click, hard to press and mushy and way to high on the side.
Volume is the same way.
Bad design, just like placing the speaker on the back of a completely flat surface, who the heck approves these...

Maybe a few of you have sort of a defective button? ( as in not working as intended )
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Easy to press but I always seem to be pressing the volume rocker at the same time. I like the top power button location on my Sensation 4G better.

crossover37 said:
It seems my power button is hard to press. There's not much of a click so I sometimes I don't know if I pressed it. I wonder I need a replacement.
How's the power button on your Nexus 4?
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I have the same problem. Its not by any means AWFUL but there are many times I attempt to press it and it doesn't press.

My power button also doesn't feel as solid as the volume rocker.
I'm afraid it will become unresponsive later.

Ok so it seems I'm not the only one with a mushy power button. I don't have a definite click that's for sure.
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Power button is good, volume down sticks though. Contemplating exchanging it
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What to do when the phone freezes?

Hey there.
First off I'd like to say that I currently own a LG O2X but I'm planning to buy a N4 as soon as it's available again.
Now, to my question:
Let's assume that the phone freezes and it doesn't restart or react to anything you do. You can't take the battery out to reset the phone. What can you do to reboot it? That kinda makes me worry, as I haven't used any Android phone besides my O2X yet and I encounter this issue sometimes and fix it by taking out the battery and putting it back in.
Thanks in advance.
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Hold down the power button.
red12355 said:
Hold down the power button.
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Does that cause the phone to reboot? With a freeze I mean a complete freeze. Touchscreen not responding to anything etc. That includes no power menu when holding down the power button.
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Yes holding down the power button is like basically doing a battery pull. Take like 6-10 seconds.
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Okay. Whew. Now I'm relieved and can't wait to get my hands on a N4. Thanks alot.
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Jefferyrbrown1983 said:
Yes holding down the power button is like basically doing a battery pull. Take like 6-10 seconds.
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I hope that's a somehow hardware implemented thing that can't go wrong no matter how ****ed up the software is.
RisinT96 said:
I hope that's a somehow hardware implemented thing that can't go wrong no matter how ****ed up the software is.
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Yeah same here. Otherwise that would be disappointing and annoying at the same time.
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Keep it in the sun
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why my nexus 4 doesn't take a screen shot when pressing power and volume down button

I'm running stock, haven't changed a thing since getting it from Google play.
Need HELP!!
Thank you!
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Are you doing it simultaneously? Give it like a second or two before releasing
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press the power button first and the the volume down button...and then wait for your INSTANT WIN!!
need to press them the same time. its a little tricky at the start but you'll get used to it.
or you can just get an app that will do it for you
like THESE
Sparta507 said:
or you can just get an app that will do it for you
like THESE
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no point in installing useless apps that consume memory when its in the OS natively. its not that difficult to press two buttons at the same time and getting it right. once you do it once or twice, you'd get the hang of it and all is good.
either that or flash a custom rom and u can add the screenshot button on your long press power button menu.
zephiK said:
no point in installing useless apps that consume memory when its in the OS natively. its not that difficult to press two buttons at the same time and getting it right. once you do it once or twice, you'd get the hang of it and all is good.
either that or flash a custom rom and u can add the screenshot button on your long press power button menu.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure its not working for me either
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It works for everyone. All you have to do is push them at the same time. Power + volume down. Hold for like three seconds. If it doesn't work hold for five seconds.
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thanks guys, it is indeed tricky. especially doing it with my diztronic case.
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strobex said:
Yeah I'm pretty sure its not working for me either
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It's very tricky. I said the same thing when I was doing it on my galaxy Nexus but got the hang of it.
Place your hand on the volume down and power button before pressing them and then hold them both at the same time until your phone makes a screen shot animation.
I will give Samsung this though the slide to screen shot is very intuitive on the touch wiz platform.
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eminemead said:
thanks guys, it is indeed tricky. especially doing it with my diztronic case.
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Oh so that's why. Since the new diztronics cover the buttons, it's probably not being pressed correctly.
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joshnichols189 said:
It works for everyone. All you have to do is push them at the same time. Power + volume down. Hold for like three seconds. If it doesn't work hold for five seconds.
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I was about to start *****in hard ..but got it to work
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zephiK said:
It's very tricky. Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
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It's actually not lol.
cloud1111 said:
It's actually not lol.
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Tell that to the people who had difficulties
It is tricky at the beginning but like I said over again and again, once you know how to do it. It's not tricky and is very easy to do. I understand depending what case they have on it may be trickier because the case covers the buttons that all of us overlooked
Screen shot working on Nexus 4 after trying this!!!!
Press Volume down button and power button until phone get restarted. then you able to take screen shots.
It worked for me.
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PTS_Nexus_4 said:
Press Volume down button and power button until phone get restarted. then you able to take screen shots.
It worked for me.
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Try first powering off your phone. I had a little issue and i could not get the shutting down menu after several attempts, the phone restarted it self and after it was up, I was able to take screenshots without any difficulties.
ceag235 said:
Try first powering off your phone. I had a little issue and i could not get the shutting down menu after several attempts, the phone restarted it self and after it was up, I was able to take screenshots without any difficulties.
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My nexus had the same problem... and yes, I know how to take screenshots...
But by doing this the problem was solved... thanx man!

CM10.1- how do I take screen shot pictures?

This is for the latest CM10.1 nightly. Power and volume down doesn't work. It worked this way with stock. :'( loving my new nexus 7!!
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You can always go to power menu and screenshot from there though it's really "clunky" (my vocabulary sucks)
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Settings-system-power menu. From there you can enable screenshots from long pressing the power button and tapping screenshot.
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the proper way to do it is to hold down the power and the up volume, or down, idk, and it will take a screenshot, it has to be pretty good timing though or youll turn your volume up or turn off the screen.
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Settings-system-power menu. From there you can enable screenshots from long pressing the power button and tapping screenshot.
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Thank!!
Is it possible to assign gesture cover screen like Galaxy note II for capture?
How to take screenshot
All you need to do for 10.1 is hold power and volume down at the same time

Power button problem?

Hi guys, I think something is wrong with my Nexus 4 power button. It usually took me many attempts to lock or unlock my device. Sometimes it recognizes my pressing as twice even I only press it once.
Is my button wearing? Anything I can do to resolve this beside a RMA?
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Use one of those slide to unlock apps that you don't even need to touch the power button ,there's much talk of them around the nexus 4 thread .
EDIT: its called Touch Control
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Go for Rma... or else use touch control.. Unlocking using volume button is another option...
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Disabling the power button

Is there a way or an app that can disable the power button so it doesn't wake up the phone?
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amf3 said:
Is there a way or an app that can disable the power button so it doesn't wake up the phone?
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How else would you plan on waking up the phone? Home button?
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amf3 said:
Is there a way or an app that can disable the power button so it doesn't wake up the phone?
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Not pressing it works
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daniel4653 said:
How else would you plan on waking up the phone? Home button?
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Yes I was thinking of just using the home button. And as for just not pressing it, that also works but I'm always pressing the button by accident since its so sensitive. But thanks for the advice
I have read you are able to disable the home button. I was just wondering if you could do the same with the power button.
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amf3 said:
Yes I was thinking of just using the home button. And as for just not pressing it, that also works but I'm always pressing the button by accident since its so sensitive. But thanks for the advice
I have read you are able to disable the home button. I was just wondering if you could do the same with the power button.
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With the power button I don't think so. I wouldn't even want to disable my power button never know what could happen
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amf3 said:
I'm always pressing the button by accident since its so sensitive.
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I agree. The volume and power buttons are very sensitive. I've had an Otterbox Defender case on since I bought the phone and never had a problem since the case makes those two buttons difficult to press. But I used the phone naked last weekend and I kept hitting those two buttons, especially when I was in landscape mode. Real PITA. Plus holding the phone was akin to holding a wet bar of soap. Needless to say, I put it back in the case.
In any event, if you disable the power button, what if the phone locks up or shuts down by mistake...how will you power it back on? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
You may want to consider looking for a slim case that covers the buttons, thus making them less sensitive to inadvertent activation.

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