Keeps shutting off, have to pull battery

[revelated]

Holding the power button by itself will bring the power menu. Volume bottons do nothing. I think combination of power and volume buttons work during the boot but not while phone is on

Your reply indicates you didn't even bother trying it. How about TRYING IT the way I describe before you reply? DO exactly what I said and see what happens.

[CrazyRussian]

I did try. Anybody can confirm power vol down then up reboots?

[revelated]

I did try. Anybody can confirm power vol down then up reboots?

Ok, I think I see the problem.

Instead of holding Volume Down, hold the button where it grooves in the middle, so you're pressing both. Hold that and Power until the menu comes up, then slide your thumb to Volume Up. That should do it.

[CrazyRussian]

That did it. Thank you for the trick

[johnmlebel]

yep reboots fine my battery cover hasnt been off since day one

[catbert234]

Thanks for the instructions on rebooting - my dissatisfaction is with the fact that this occurs at all - my phone has randomly powered down on 5 occasions now - once in the middle of a call, which was EXTREMELY disconcerting. Pretty much my opinion is that the dang phone should stay ON.

[johnmlebel]

then you have a bad phone or battery or sim. mine hasnt restarted in over a month now

[GrsmRngr]

I did try. Anybody can confirm power vol down then up reboots?

Yes, this DOES work, and you CAN press both vol up and down buttons at the same time....

[MdicnMan]

So after 1 week my bionic screen goes blank. Pushing the power button does nothing. I have to pull the battery to get it to restart. It does it randomly...after its been idle for a while. Any ideas?

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This is affectionately known as the BSOD. The good news is that by most reports the forthcoming .901 update resolves it. Unfortuantely, nobody seems to know when it will be pushed to more than the group that got it in error. If you want to install it in advance you can check out this thread. Official STOCK 901 Update Thread (No Rooting Discussions)

[aaf709]

Are we talking about the same thing? For the BSOD, on page 53 of the Bionic Manual:

Crash recovery
In the unlikely event that your smartphone stops
responding to touches and key presses, try a quick
reset. Remove the back cover and battery (“Assemble &
charge” on page 3), then replace and switch your
smartphone on as usual.

On page 55 of the Razr Manual it's Power and Volume Down for the same thing.

Power and Volume Up/Down at the same time is for Stock Recovery (adb reboot recovery), but with Power off. With Power on, doing that just gives the usual choices of powering down (plus it drops the ringer volume). At least that's what it does for me.