Thread: HELP - Power Button
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-03-25 , 07:06
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Originally Posted by minimos View Post
For turning off, there are some tiny apps that do reboot/powerdown, and to turn on you should be able to do it by plugging a charger.
How come did you 'over-use' the power button? Do you switch your device on and off many times a day?
It's a known failure mode of N9, the power button (and volume buttons to some extent) is not very durable.
Some people have had luck in cleaning the SMD switch located on the edge of the system board under the actual button, but in the worst case it requires replacing the switches.

You cannot "turn on the device" by plugging it into the charger, as by default it goes to ACT_DEAD mode when plugged to charger when switched off.
What you can do, is to use flasher to reboot the phone from OFF state, using the command "sudo flasher -r"
Or, if you are using ubiboot, you can override the ACT_DEAD mode by setting "G_OVERRIDE_USB_CHARGER_BOOT=1" in your ubiboot.conf (which actually is the default option, BTW...)
 

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