Problem With Power Key

[CComo55]

Hi All,

First of all I would like to thank all of you who have responded to the thousands of questions posted on here. Without this forum, I would have returned my Droid after the first day. With that said, all of a sudden I cannot put my phone into hibernation mode. I used to gently press the power button at the top of the phone once and my phone would go into hibernation, now when I gently press it nothing happens. If I hold the button for a couple of seconds I do get the power off/silence/airline mode but I want to be able to place my phone into hibernation like I used to be able to do. I tried everything I could think of to fix this but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Christie

PS: I did search on here first for hibernating the Droid but only found people looking for an app to do it for them.

 

[SSHGuru]

Sounds like a hardware problem at first but you said holding it down works...

Have you downloaded any apps that might have affected the power options?

Hi All,

First of all I would like to thank all of you who have responded to the thousands of questions posted on here. Without this forum, I would have returned my Droid after the first day. With that said, all of a sudden I cannot put my phone into hibernation mode. I used to gently press the power button at the top of the phone once and my phone would go into hibernation, now when I gently press it nothing happens. If I hold the button for a couple of seconds I do get the power off/silence/airline mode but I want to be able to place my phone into hibernation like I used to be able to do. I tried everything I could think of to fix this but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Christie

PS: I did search on here first for hibernating the Droid but only found people looking for an app to do it for them.

 

[CComo55]

I have downloaded a ton of apps. I uninstalled the ones I remember downloading today, shut my phone off, restarted and it still does not hibernate. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance!!

 

[CComo55]

Could my advanced Task Killer be shutting down the option to hibernate?

 

[SSHGuru]

Have you done a battery pull yet? Does your task killer run automatically? You don't need one that does that.

 

[CComo55]

Yes, I did a battery pull. Still no luck.

 

[SSHGuru]

You might have to try a hard reset then.. it will wipe your phone and that may cure the problem - it's drastic but I don't know what else to suggest.

 

[AnneDroid]

You might have to try a hard reset then.. it will wipe your phone and that may cure the problem - it's drastic but I don't know what else to suggest.

Hi, CComo55 and welcome!
I had to do a factory reset a while back for a different problem (Droid became possessed and would reboot itself). Amyway, it sounded drastic, but it worked wonders. Then just go onto the market once you're back in business and all of your apps will be there ready to download again. Haven't had any issues since. Good luck!

 

[CComo55]

OK. I guess I will have to do a hard reset. I am just annoyed that I spent a week or more setting this phone up with each apps settings and I will have to go back to square one. I thought you guys might have seen this happen before and that it would be a simple fix. Thanks for the responses!

Christie