Well, that sure gave me a scare...

[The Mad Mule]

So I went on the Browser for a few minutes, decided to go back to studying, and tapped the top of the phone into sleep mode before putting it down.

A few minutes later, I picked it up and hit the Home button to wake it up. Nothing. I thought I hit the wrong button and did it again. Still nothing.

I tapped the power button on top to see if that would work. The screen remained blank. Thinking that maybe it somehow turned itself off, I held down the power button to see if it'd show me the white screen and Motorola icon. Nope.

So I flipped over the phone and did a battery pull, reminiscing about my old BB Curve and how I had to pull the battery so often, the latch holding the backplate broke a few months before I got the Droid X.

Put everything back in, and held down the power button again. And of course, it turns on, Droid eye stares back at me, everything is fine again.

But I still find it unsettling how it just randomly decided to pull that stunt on me. Hopefully this isn't foreshadowing any major problems down the road, because it's been working perfectly so far.

 

[DaRkL3AD3R]

Hmm odd. I had to pull the battery myself the other day because I was righting an email out and when I pressed enter to add a fresh line, the whole screen locked up. Tried pressing home button, it made my screen black with just the notification bar up top and nothing came up. Pressed the power button like you did, and it never came back on. So, ultimately it took the battery pull to fix it.

Sadly though I think the battery pull will be around for awhile as no piece of software, especially one as ambiguous as an operating system, is error free. Its when hardware goes wrong that I get troubled...

 

[Clemsonpablo]

If they would have given the power button top priority like the iphone then we're never need battery pulls.

 

[ratmonkey]

The old japanese reset. With soft power buttons you can't fully interrupt the power supply like is sometimes needed. A register value probably got hung.

 

[Arelunde]

Sometimes, a "tap" on the power button is interpreted by the X as "turn off the power." Then you have to hold down the power button long enough to see the "M" logo appear. Sometimes it takes a couple tries to turn it on again.

 

[rjdangerous]

maybe the "tap" was a little long and the menu popped up, as you put it down you hit power off?