Hero-Power Button problem - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello guys. At first i´m so sorry for my bad english, so i´ll show you a video of my problem.
Phone - HTC Hero, Android 2,1
Video:
I can´t post outside links in my messages...
youtube. com/watch?v=V1BwQZsoKCk
It will not go to sleep mode when pressing the end/power key. But it still takes phone OUT of sleep mode, but now I have to wait for the screen timeout instead of pressing the button again.
I tried to find answer to my question, but i failed... I tried Reboot, Spare Parts - i don´t know if it worked properly, Hard reset, but the power button still not working properly.
Thank you! Marty

Restore you phone to the default setting and softares
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I tried that... No results

Marty Chill said:
I tried that... No results
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Try to restore your phone to the default, or try to install a custom rom
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Now i did a ROOT and i try to flash in some ROMs but it still not works + it cancels my outcoming and incoming calls...

Sounds like you have a failing power button.. like I do.
It's a real pain in the ass... been looking for solutions for quite a while, besides physically replacing the circuit board the button is on...

I know this is old but for anybody researching the same problem... after trying MANY different apps for taking over power button tasks, the only real solution was to buy a replacement "Flex Cable" assembly on eBay. Takes some bravery to install but everything works now.
But that's just my experience.

I suppose that the simplest way out id button remapper that you can find hear at xda.
By using such software you can easily turn any of the other physical keys of your device into the power button.

lucaoldb said:
I suppose that the simplest way out id button remapper that you can find hear at xda.
By using such software you can easily turn any of the other physical keys of your device into the power button.
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True, and they did work once the phone was up and running. However, when something went wrong on my rom and I needed to get into recovery to re-flash... I was SOL.

Yes, remapping is applied only after the kernel is loaded... So remapping is quite useless if the phone is switched off.

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HTC problems

Hey guys i have a HTC touch pro and my power button keeps going on and off by itself its almost like its stuck it has nothing to do with the button itself cause i have removed the power button but it seem to still do the same thing the pop up comes up "dou you want to turn off device" it happens like every few seconds so i basicaly cannot not do anything for more than a few seconds then it pops up, also when the phone is off it will switch it back on automaticaly. i have installed the remaping key program it has seemed to make it stop but i have lost all my buttons now only touch screen works when it ask me to add a button press and release iv tried but nothing happens in the pop down it says "none" so if there are anyone that can help me with this it will be most appricated and if there are another way of fixing the power button or other programs please let me know and i will give it ago. Many thanks
200gxi said:
Hey guys i have a HTC touch pro and my power button keeps going on and off by itself its almost like its stuck it has nothing to do with the button itself cause i have removed the power button but it seem to still do the same thing the pop up comes up "dou you want to turn off device" it happens like every few seconds so i basicaly cannot not do anything for more than a few seconds then it pops up, also when the phone is off it will switch it back on automaticaly. i have installed the remaping key program it has seemed to make it stop but i have lost all my buttons now only touch screen works when it ask me to add a button press and release iv tried but nothing happens in the pop down it says "none" so if there are anyone that can help me with this it will be most appricated and if there are another way of fixing the power button or other programs please let me know and i will give it ago. Many thanks
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It looks like you may have a hardware issue (on the board). Did the phone get wet or damaged in any way?
hey thanks for the reply, the phone just started doing it out the blue HTC has replace the mother board 3 times and the problem still occurs i even removed the power button completely and still no luck!
200gxi said:
hey thanks for the reply, the phone just started doing it out the blue HTC has replace the mother board 3 times and the problem still occurs i even removed the power button completely and still no luck!
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I know that the hardware starts acting funny if it get wet since the contacts for the buttons can short out. I would get HTC to take another look at it. Also, make sure that you are not damaging the device accidentally by crushing it in your pocket or things of that nature.

[Q] screen asleep during call

been having a problem with the 2.2 roms. I install them and the screen will go to sleep during a call, and the only way to wake it up is to either hang up the call or plug in the charging cord. The phone will wake normal when i flash back to a 2.1 rom. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix on froyo roms.
Enable trackball to wakeup under cyanogen settings or something like that.
press send + vol up (or vol down, believe it's vol up) to wake up phone. mods please move to q&a thread. thanks and hope this helps.
mjb413 said:
press send + vol up (or vol down, believe it's vol up) to wake up phone. mods please move to q&a thread. thanks and hope this helps.
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You almost had it.
Press and hold vol+, then while holding that, press and release the send button. That will wake the screen without disturbing the call.
push this to system/usr/keylayout
http://www.multiupload.com/AFKG4K2IBB
sorry 5thagent. remembered seeing the instructions somewhere around. thanks for the correction! :-( i tried. I had forgotten about the other fix.
was just about to post on this today. thx for the infoz
Also... all you should have to do is pull the phone away from your face and it should turn back on almost immediately. I've never ever had this problem lol
Hungry Man said:
Also... all you should have to do is pull the phone away from your face and it should turn back on almost immediately. I've never ever had this problem lol
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I agree that should normally work,but at least for me when using speaker phone I can't just move the phone to wake it. using trackball wake/unlock works fine though
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tazzpatriot said:
push this to system/usr/keylayout
http://www.multiupload.com/AFKG4K2IBB
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What is that and what does it do?
How hard is it to program the ROM so that the screen turns back on when you touch it?
Hungry Man said:
Also... all you should have to do is pull the phone away from your face and it should turn back on almost immediately. I've never ever had this problem lol
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this is how i test my roms callin 226 and it alwayz works
Hungry Man said:
Also... all you should have to do is pull the phone away from your face and it should turn back on almost immediately. I've never ever had this problem lol
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That works but if you have your phone on the table in front of you w/speakerphone enabled while some robot is giving you 5 minutes of number equations, the phone will timeout. When the trackball wake option is selected in CyanogenMod settings/input settings, it will wake the device after you've manually turned the phone off but it doesn't wake the screen after it's timed out. I have been trying to use tasker as a way around this problem but I haven't been able to successfully write a working profile
Blma617 said:
That works but if you have your phone on the table in front of you w/speakerphone enabled while some robot is giving you 5 minutes of number equations, the phone will timeout. When the trackball wake option is selected in CyanogenMod settings/input settings, it will wake the device after you've manually turned the phone off but it doesn't wake the screen after it's timed out. I have been trying to use tasker as a way around this problem but I haven't been able to successfully write a working profile
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just use the vol up + send?
playpolo4life said:
just use the vol up + send?
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I was never aware of this method.. Thanks dude
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playpolo4life said:
just use the vol up + send?
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I'm bumping this thread because I have the same problem but my volume rocker is broken/missing so it is very difficult for me to press vol up/down. I need to use a pen tip or needle, which I usually do not have readily available.
Is there any other option out there for me? Why can't I use the trackball or just the Send key????????????
If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.
FYI, I'm running GSB 1.4 (CM-7 Gingerbread based ROM).
edit: Some users on the CM forums said that pressing the Menu or Home keys worked, but that doesn't work for me. They were on CM6, so maybe that doesn't work in CM7, I don't know.
CrayzeeCarl said:
I'm bumping this thread because I have the same problem but my volume rocker is broken/missing so it is very difficult for me to press vol up/down. I need to use a pen tip or needle, which I usually do not have readily available.
Is there any other option out there for me? Why can't I use the trackball or just the Send key????????????
If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.
FYI, I'm running GSB 1.4 (CM-7 Gingerbread based ROM).
edit: Some users on the CM forums said that pressing the Menu or Home keys worked, but that doesn't work for me. They were on CM6, so maybe that doesn't work in CM7, I don't know.
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I seem to recall that in CM settings, you can configure what buttons can wake the phone up. You should be able to set it to the trackball.

[Q] Hook into power button

If I write an app, is it possible to to override the default functionality of the hardware power button?
I only found this on google, but it didn't work:
stackoverflow.com/questions/3703071/how-to-hook-into-the-power-button-in-android
Thank you!
I would be interested in an app to do this, as well as bringing up the power menu as holding the power button usually does.
The power button on my Desire has issues letting go... the phone seems to think that the button is always pressed, effectively making me unable to "press" the button when I want. Pretty certain it is mechanical failure, since if I take the battery out and then put back in, the phone turns on without my doing anything else. So, I cannot shutdown via the power menu... tried apps which use SU to power off/reboot, but they are causing problems with Data2Ext and A2SD+ filesystems. I also cannot do anything from hboot or fastboot... must enter recovery through a root app.. which is not always helpful.
Been looking for several months
Baschdard said:
If I write an app, is it possible to to override the default functionality of the hardware power button?
I only found this on google, but it didn't work:
stackoverflow.com/questions/3703071/how-to-hook-into-the-power-button-in-android
Thank you!
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I would really like for this too.
I am trying to do an in-dash install of a 7inch tablet and it is unable to sense when the power is removed. I have also tried running Tasker but it says 'Application not installed'.
So I would like to send a pulse to the power button and trigger a shutdown app. Otherwise I will just be cutting power which is sure to corrupt things
It's Needed!!!
Please see my other post in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052451
Thanks!!

Power off button

Hi. I'm having a trouble with my LG G2 mini. When I get the phone in my pocket, unintentionally, I hold the power off button and even when the phone is blocked, if you hold the power off button, it restart. Sometimes I'm walking on the street and I hear the booting sound from my pocket and I'm like... WTF?
Someone know how to deactivate this function? is a pain in the ass.
Thanks and sorry for my REALLY bad english
I've never noticed such thing as restarting, but I have similiar problem with Volume+ and Volume- - there's camera and quick note shortcuts by default and I can't get rid of them...
root -> exposed -> G2 tweaks box
There you can set the behaviour of the volume buttons.
Don't know if you can set power button, but I never had problems with it.
Yeah cool, but You have to pay to unlock those features.
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silent_hunter said:
Yeah cool, but You have to pay to unlock those features.
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So what?
You can buy a phone for a lot of money and tell us you can not afford a software for a few bucks?
Shame on you.
The developer spend a lot of time for it.
I simply prefer to spend my money on something, that I need more than that.
I buyed and works great with vol+ and vol- but not with power button. A shame, but hey, I have a great app to modify my phone [emoji2]
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cripii5 said:
I buyed and works great with vol+ and vol- but not with power button. A shame, but hey, I have a great app to modify my phone [emoji2]
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AFAIK long pressing of power button is not handled by the OS.
It works even when the device freezes or you tried to boot with a non working kernel.
Some kind of emergency restart that nags you.
I was very happy that it works this way while testing custom recoveries.
Ok now i'm having a new problem. If you deactivate de vol+/vol- function in the bloq screen if you press vol+ amd vol- at the same time for a few secods, the phone just can't start until you press the power button for a few seconds to restart it. I guess I will have to buy a case for my phone

Volume keys not working

Hi reader xD.
So here's the thing.. I have an S3 with a nightly of cyanogenmod 13. After I installed it everything worked and was all nice and shiny. This is a kind of a backup phone that I only use sometimes specially when I want to try cyanogemod new releases. So this phone spends practically 90% of the year off. A few weeks ago, I turned it on because I was gonna set it up to loan the phone to a friend and I noticed that the volume key was not working (wasn't able to go into recovery mode). I also tried it in a music app and still could not control the volume with the button. Went to check the buttons settings and "control the volume with the button" is ticked. I also updated with another nightly through phone settings "check update".. but still.. no sings of life for the button.
So I opened the phone and took the button out.. and tried with a thin plastic tool to press directly where the volume button is placed (to check if it was a bad contact thing) and nothing happened.
I am guessing this is an hardware problem but don't know what to look for. Any suggestions on what more can I check? Any thoughts on this would be very much appreciated!
I see that I am f...ed xD.. ( T_T )
Is it possible to get into recovery mode without the volume keys? Because I would like to clean it all up.. install a cyanogenmod update and then find some kind of app to allow anyone that uses the phone to easily control de volume without those buttons and without going to the settings.. I think I've seen a forum talking about something like that.
Yes, by using either terminal ( if you have cm13 enable it in developer settings) or by using adb (adb reboot recovery). Easy. But you'd want to consider finding the component and buying it. It's cheap as chips and easy to replace. It has the volume buttons, the LED on the front and the earpiece.
西村大一 said:
Yes, by using either terminal ( if you have cm13 enable it in developer settings) or by using adb (adb reboot recovery). Easy. But you'd want to consider finding the component and buying it. It's cheap as chips and easy to replace. It has the volume buttons, the LED on the front and the earpiece.
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Sure.. I guess I don't have much to lose if I try your suggestion. Gonna search for tutorials on how to do that and then just get my hands dirty.
Thank you!!

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