FYI,
The power button being at the top of the device leads to frequent restarting in my pocket!
This is because when you sit down, and your jeans kinda tight / fitted (as is the style these days), the top of the phone is pressing up against the top of your jean pocket (near the belt).
On days when I need my battery to last (because I'm going out later) I actually make sure that I put the phone in my pocket upside-down so that the bottom of the phone is pressing up against the top of the jean pocket. When you sit down there is generally less pressure on the bottom than the top of pocket. Least pressure is on the sided. Phones never accidentally restart in my pocket when power button on the sides.
Anyone else experienced this?
That'sodd that pants can press that button as flush as it is on the phone.
But I actually always put my phone in my pocket upside down. That when when I pull it out I don't have to rotate it later its all one smooth action of double tapping the screen and lift
Solution: Don't wear skinny jeans.
I've never had mine restart in my pocket, at least not that I've noticed.
And here i was thinking at least the top button didn't restart my phone
Have had many other phones restart on me cuz the power button at the SIDE was squished in the pocket..
Your jeans may be too tight
I wear tight clothing and have never had my phone restart...
next your skinny jeans will bend the phone and you'll blame Asus for that too :crying:
Sounds more like wearing jeans too small for you causes frequent restarting .
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For those of you who own it and use it often, the simple question is whether the placement of the power button gets in your way?
I am right-handed and thus hold tablets in my left hand to poke at it with my right hand. Since I don't own one yet, I haven't had much experience with day to day use and whether 'just grabbing it' often results in hitting the power button accidentally.
As well as whether when you have it in your lap or on something (backpack, lap, blanket, whatever) if the items underneath, assuming they are not perfectly flat, accidentally hit the power button as well.
My hope is that since I don't see many/any posts dedicated to the subject.. that it's good news and the power button isn't that big of a deal.
Thanks. Can't wait for the Wifi X (cause I missed the 25% off chance).
I have never accidentally hit the power button. I'm right handed too.
The biggest issue you may have with the buttons placement is when you have the device on a flat surface, it requires you to lift the top left of the Xoom to hit the button. Personally, this hasn't bothered me at all. I barely just have my device laying flat on a table, usually it rests in my lap or my hands.
But I can almost assure you, problems with accidentally hitting the button probably will not arise.
I do have a gel case on mine though, but i just took it off to test this for you:
Running my finger across the back of the Xoom with decent pressure still won't cause the button to be pushed in when my finger crosses it.
So resting it in your lap wouldn't cause an accidental push.
And if it does for whatever reason, a gel case would do good to counteract that since it makes the button deeper down. but the way its set up, you really should see no problem.
Agreed! I most of the time actually have to search for the button especially when using the trick to turn it upside-down when charging. I think the design is good and I agree that I hardly have it laying flat either since the viewing angles are mediocre
My beef is with the volume buttons. Too tiny. The power button is high enough that it avoids accidental contact with hand during one handed operation.
ZBoater said:
My beef is with the volume buttons. Too tiny. The power button is high enough that it avoids accidental contact with hand during one handed operation.
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Agree'd, it took me about this whole first week to get use to these volume buttons. They are kind of hard to press in depending on the angle you're coming at them, and the Case makes it harder because you're unsure when you're trying to hit the buttons it you're actually hitting the buttons because of the huge space between them.
I like it where it is. It's very convenient.
Couldn't be in a better place, very convenient, for me.
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I have never accidentally pressed it, I actually like it's placement quite a bit, it makes sense for me because of where I hold the tablet from.
Elysian893 said:
I have never accidentally pressed it, I actually like it's placement quite a bit, it makes sense for me because of where I hold the tablet from.
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Same for me...right handed.
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Thanks everyone.. the answers are what I expected.. just wanted to confirm. 19 votes at the moment and 100% of them say the power button location is just fine. Thanks again.
1st post here!!! Great forum BTW. No problems at all with hitting the power button by mistake. Xoom is a great device. Needs a little polishing, but all in all a great device!
I have never once hit it by accident. I've also never had any trouble pressing or finding it when I DID want to. After a day of getting used to it, it really is an extremely natural position to have it in.
Yes, the one inconvenience is if it's lying flat on a surface, and you intend on turning the screen on and then leaving it in that position. Really though, when is this ever going happen?
This is Android though. So if the ability to fully map one of the volume buttons (on the upper-left side of the xoom) to turn the screen on/off doesn't already exist (via an app or ROM), you can bet it will soon. I've seen forum threads with titles suggesting such an app already exists, but I've never looked for it myself bc I don't think it's necessary
Add me to the group that loves where its at
+1,
I like the location of the Power button and have never had issue.
Hey Everyone,
I got my Noreve case, and one thing I'm quite happy with is how it makes the power and volume buttons much harder to hit accidentally.
This is because it reverses the situation:
On the stock note the buttons are higher than the frame. Therefore when you hold it, it's easy to slide over and accidentally whack the power button. With the case, the case is now 'higher' than the button, and you kind of have to deliberately poke your finger in to trigger.
That being said - I was thinking about the capacitive buttons.
I'm thinking of making some sort of 'O' out of tape (?!?) or something, that covers the capacitive buttons. That way if I want to hit the button, I can poke my finger in and hit it. But if I'm just holding the phone and entering text, I am much less likely to 'rub' the back button and lose whatever I'm doing.
Need to find something that's not too cheesy looking though.
My phone is inside a case so I'm not worried about it being thicker and rubbing off in my pocket.
- Frank
You have expressed what I have been thinking about for years, since my first phone with touch-sensitive buttons ( the HTC Touch HD ).
Now I'm on my third phone with touch sensitive buttons ( Touch HD, Galaxy S, Galaxy Note ), and the same issue still plagues me : every once in a while, I would accidentally brush against the back button and it pops me back to the prev screen, which annoys the hell out of me.
Some nice stick-on buttons which require a firm press to activate would be great.
ChodTheWacko said:
Hey Everyone,
I got my Noreve case, and one thing I'm quite happy with is how it makes the power and volume buttons much harder to hit accidentally.
This is because it reverses the situation:
On the stock note the buttons are higher than the frame. Therefore when you hold it, it's easy to slide over and accidentally whack the power button. With the case, the case is now 'higher' than the button, and you kind of have to deliberately poke your finger in to trigger.
That being said - I was thinking about the capacitive buttons.
I'm thinking of making some sort of 'O' out of tape (?!?) or something, that covers the capacitive buttons. That way if I want to hit the button, I can poke my finger in and hit it. But if I'm just holding the phone and entering text, I am much less likely to 'rub' the back button and lose whatever I'm doing.
Need to find something that's not too cheesy looking though.
My phone is inside a case so I'm not worried about it being thicker and rubbing off in my pocket.
- Frank
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Hi,
I just don't get it, I'm trying to Hardreset my WP7 (UltraFruit) but I can't press both buttons at the same time.. I start holding the two buttons before or while magldr counts 1,2,3.. In some cases I get tricolor screen with nspl, I found out this happens when I press only Vol- and the other case is it boots into WP7.. So can anyone explane me how to press these buttons at the same time? I find it very difficult as it is one plastic cover for two buttons..
Background: I have two microSD cards, one from Android and the other one is locked by WP7.. If I flash WP7 it doesn't work (with both cards).. Can hardreset help in this case to get one of the cards working with WP7 or do I need Nokia?
Thanks in advance
Hey there.
Here's what I do, when the phone is powered off. I have the phone sideways, screen facing right, and my left hand holding it, with my thumb on the right side of the phone and my middle and index fingers on the two volume buttons. Squeezing these three fingers, you can feel both volume buttons go down. You're right though, one plastic thing covers the two buttons so you have to squeeze hard. With my free hand, I power that mutha on.
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Hey there.
Here's what I do, when the phone is powered off. I have the phone sideways, screen facing right, and my left hand holding it, with my thumb on the right side of the phone and my middle and index fingers on the two volume buttons. Squeezing these three fingers, you can feel both volume buttons go down. You're right though, one plastic thing covers the two buttons so you have to squeeze hard. With my free hand, I power that mutha on.
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lol, indeed, but not too hard now, breaking thos two gems becomes a real pain in the arse
hmm...
I never tried this before.
Could you help me out?
I recently got my G2 D802 wet in rain. It was in my Rain jacket's pocket, and got a little wet, i turned it off and cleaned it with tissue and put in a plastic bag. when i came back to home i sucked air from speakers grill and turned it on. it opened fined except touch was not working in certain areas, then I opened its back casing (its easy) and used hair drier to dry it for over 1 hour, i dint put drier too close in case phone gets too hot, but im sure i dried it well, then i turned the phone on and it worked fine, untill next day when its power button started acting weirdly. power button works fine, it turns phone off, unlocks it, only problem occurs when it doesn't turn off screen when phone is unlocked. like when screen is on. i have tried locking and unlocking in recovery TWRP and it works fine there. just having problem when phone is on. any suggestions? im on Cloudy Rom 2.1.
thanks.
PS: i just check again, when phone is locked and screen off, and i press and hold power button, it displays power off menu and also opens QUICK MEMO, so i guess when screen is unlocked , power button acts as vol up and power button?
Probably some water short circuit your buttons. A good manner of dry wet phone is:
Disconnect battery
Put the phone in rice for almost 24 hours
Reconnect battery ......Pray... And turn it on
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Power button on Aquos stopped working a while ago. I used to be able to squeeze the screen very hard in a certain place and press the power button to turn it on, but this no longer works. Any way to turn the phone on over USB or some other method??
lol ima genius
Well, thanks to my severe impatience, i decided to make a somewhat "oven" to heat the entire phone with a goal of re-soldering the contacts. I took one of those electric heated blankets, turned it up to max settings, tightly wrapped my Aquos in it, then wrapped the heated blanket with a comforter to insulate it. 1 hour later, i removed the phone, let it cool down for a minute, squeezed the screen just below the power button, held it down and PRESTO! it booted up. No idea if this was luck or what, but it sure did work. Any suggestions on apps to use the volume keys as power buttons or something?
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Well, thanks to my severe impatience, i decided to make a somewhat "oven" to heat the entire phone with a goal of re-soldering the contacts. I took one of those electric heated blankets, turned it up to max settings, tightly wrapped my Aquos in it, then wrapped the heated blanket with a comforter to insulate it. 1 hour later, i removed the phone, let it cool down for a minute, squeezed the screen just below the power button, held it down and PRESTO! it booted up. No idea if this was luck or what, but it sure did work. Any suggestions on apps to use the volume keys as power buttons or something?
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You can turn your screen on by motion it's in settings some where
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