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Power button is unreliable on Jolla C

asked 2016-09-12 10:39:47 +0300

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On my Jolla C the power button seems to be unreliable. Every 10th times or so when I press the power button to wake the device up nothing happens. Possibly this is a hardware issue: if I press the button too gently it does not recognise the event.

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Not sure if it's the same issue, but my Jolla1 also doesn't wake up or go to sleep by pressing the power button sometimes.

null ( 2016-09-12 11:58:48 +0300 )edit

I never paid much attention to it, but now that you mention it, I seem to run into the same trouble sometimes. I often use the double-pushing-the-powerswitch to return to the last open app and it sometimes seems to "forget" the first push on my Jolla C.

Venty ( 2016-09-12 13:26:51 +0300 )edit

Heh, it seems that in my Nexus5/SFOS the power button is way too sensitive as it has happened twice that the device has switcched itself off in mu pocket when I am bending :)

juiceme ( 2016-09-12 16:04:52 +0300 )edit

I think just go to a proper mobile phone repair shop where they do board level repair, and they will replace the problematic button.

I know this is not a widespread device, but a good technician can find some footprint compatible pushbutton easily I think.

martonmiklos ( 2017-06-16 22:35:23 +0300 )edit

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answered 2017-06-16 10:19:29 +0300

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Jolla sailor spiiroin posted a software trick for this kind of hardware failure.

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On my Jolla C the power button is in perfect order hardware-wise, yet it works with horrible irregular delays because of SOFTWARE problems. Sometimes I cannot unblock the phone.

It started the moment I updated SFOS to 3.1. The button worked flawlessly and instantly in SFOS 2.x and even 3.0. Immediately after refalsh to 3.1 the button stopped responding normally (I did not press it at all between the "good" and "broken" states). Subsequent update to SFOS 3.2 did nothing to fix it.

This is obviously a development blunder that might be caused by an attempt to fix overesponsive buttons of Nexus/etc.. Jplla C does not need it.

yalik-c ( 2020-01-22 22:33:46 +0300 )edit
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