I have a Motorola Defy+ running CM10.1. Suddenly today, my phone's menu, home, back and search keys stopped working. The phone was not dropped. Any help on ways to get the keys working again?
Edit:
Tapping the capacitive keys actually taps the bottom edge of the screen.
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Recently I am having problems with my phone, and am wondering if it is a software or hardware problem.
I have tried loading the TNT4 rom & WS5SE roms (this is a g4), and there is no change (im on the Tnt4 one now).
The touchscreen works okay, but the soft key buttons do not. The right bottom one is okay, the left one triggers the right one, the send button show the letters "uytga" on the phone screen when i press them, the end button shows "mn" or something, the camera button works perfect, the comm manager button is the same as the voice button (even when i map it with a program it says "button 4").
It even happens on the soft keys on the keyboard when i slide it out.
Also I used Start-sSPL to put the roms on. Is there a way I can get the OEM one back on or fix the button problem?
Any help will be appreciated.
My soft keys are acting weird. sometimes when i press the home button right after a boot, it captures screen, meaning the 'menu' soft key is depressed. However, after that the softkeys don't respond anymore.
Also, sometimes while powering on, the Galaxy boots up in 'safe mode', meaning again that the 'menu' button is depressed (the way to enter safe mode is by pressing the menu button with the power button).
I have checked the key map in the clockwork recovery which show the 'menu' & 'back' key responding only once before going dead.
During general operation, the softkeys don't work at all and i'm left with only the home button.
Since the keys respond once, i'm sure they're not broken. Seems like a software error. I have tried different kernels & 3 diff roms, but the situation is the same.
Any help to ascertain / solve the problem will be appreciated
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I had a similar issue on a brand new phone, the soft keys would detect my finger from about 1cm away, so holding the phone and moving you grip would cause them to activate, eventually they would lock up until you locked the screen and tried again. It was totally a hardware issue, I replaced the phone used the same ROM and no issues.
the reason i'm convinced its not a hardware fault is that the keys 'blink' when i touch them which means they are registering touch. its got to be something else.
the Galaxy has got to be the most mysterious device ever!
Sounds like you ought to send it in for a replacement.
You can try a touchkey firmware update.
Make sure you're on your device's stock ROM otherwise you'll lose your touchkeys.
ENTER *#*#2663#*#* in the dialer. Then update the touchkey firmware and reboot.
You should be able to return to your other ROM after this.
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Hi,
I was wondering if you could disable capacitive buttons and have on screen buttons (that don't cover the apps) on this device without root? I have heard the buttons get pressed accidentally.
Thanks
I want the same thing. because I always bumping the taskview button. I even rotated the display and use the tablet upside down ,so the buttons at the top. and I still bump it sometimes...
I9500 immaculate, left menu & right back buttons at base of screen stopped working
The touch sensitive menu 'button' to the left of the centred home button,
and the touch sensitive back 'button' to the right of the centred home button,
both don't work. However the central home button does work.
Everything else on the phone works.
I have already replaced the charger port ribbon, but this made no difference.
Has anyone any idea what is wrong and can this be fixed with a new part, or software.
Did they suddenly stopped working? A bit of background info may help more.
I don't know why, but all three soft keys (home and such) are non-functional anymore as long as they are at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes the phone phantom-clicks the middle button frantically by itself (what?!). When I switch screen orientation and the keys are at the opposite side, they work. BUT: when the keys are at the opposite side the area at the bottom of the phone has no problems registering my touches. Only when the soft keys are down there, they won't work.
This is still happening after a clean firmware flash with a different firmware.
Is there a demon in my phone? What the hell is going on?
EDIT: Yotaphone 2
EDIT2: Android 6.0.1, RU.
The same region works flawlessly on the lock screen. When I touch mic/lock/camera those will react. But once it's unlocked and I'm on the home screen the navigation bar won't work. Why is this happening??