Power/Lock button not working?

[karl1990]

Brute force and ignorance is bliss

Completely unresponsive. Anyone else? Resetting now.

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Ok, i had the same issue, looked on many forums and no amount of effort would force restart or turn the phone on, no power cable turned it on so i put it down to broken hardware (the button itself) got some pliers, ripped the button out, there was 3 seperate holes, get 3 pointy objects, stick them in all three holes and viola it turned on, if you want a safe way of ensuring your honor stays alive even when its dead it to set an alarm 4 hours apart, honors have a setting to turn the phone on when the alarm is due. Just make sure u got a charger to hand.

 

[Aetrian]

(Samsung galaxy A5 2016) So my phone got a bit wet and the power button stopped responding after it. I turned it of with the volume down button and on with both volume button but it didn't do much. I repeated the same thing, I held down all the possible buttons while restarting and there was an effect. After second restart the pop up with 3 options to turn off restart or alarm mode started coming up on it's own and the button worked occasionally. I restarted it again and now the button is working perfectly. I should also mention there was lot of blowing into the button and hitting the phone with might have helped.

 

[Rola321]

(Samsung A5 2016): The power button stopped responding 3 months ago. I followed these steps:
1. Safe mode to uninstall some apps: phone worked fine for a while, but the problem appeared again.
2. Factory reset: solved the problem temporary.
3. Removing SD card: didn't fix the problem.

The problem might be caused by moisture, or physical damage (Once I fell off my bike with phone in my hand). If in Settings->Display, auto brightness is disabled, then LCD brightness for the top of screen is different from the bottom.

So right now, the lock button is unresponsive, and I have to push the button for many times before the screen is shown. Every time I push the button, it blinks quickly and stay off. If the problem is because of the button, the I can install an app to use other buttons to unlock the phone.

 

[jayvaughan28]

After drying out the phone by my laptop fan and then heating the phone with my wireless charging case as it charged seemed to fix this issue for me.