home button

[crewcheifgtaa]

having 2 issues at the moment... #1 the home button isn't working.. I can feel it vibrate but it doesn't return the screen.
#2 is the power/lock button does not lock the screen.. it sends it away but when recalled it wont go to lock screen.... Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[qwiksilver711]

any recent apps installed lately? that may be the cause

 

[crewcheifgtaa]

no recent apps installed.. phone actually turned itself off then on again while sitting on armrest of vehicle.. then after that is when troubles started..

 

[iiiwildfireiii]

Mine just did the exact same thing! My power button works fine, but the Home and Search buttons vibrate and do NOTHING!

*edit* also, I just noticed that when i press and hold power to reboot, the airplane mode and other options are no longer available. Just the "power off" option. This is too strange.

 

[crewcheifgtaa]

Mine had this issue as well..... did master reboot and all is well so far... had to refind and load apps..lost text messages...but phone is working!!!

 

[qwiksilver711]

That was my next suggestion, factory reset...

 

[Magdroid]

you could try a battery pull as well.

Fixed mine when my droid powered down, and wouldn't turn back on.

 

[wotexva99]

Same problem here...power button will not lock(airplane mode not showing up)
Also my home and search buttons don't work, they vibrate just don work

 

[jsh1120]

Folks,

When you encounter problems like this, the order of "fixes" is

(1) power cycle your phone, i.e. turn it off and back on.

(2) pull the battery.

(3) a factory reset.

(4) a trip to the Verizon store with a hardware problem.

It's probably fruitless to ask "what caused this" unless you can reproduce the problem repeatedly and reliably. In all likelihood the problem doesn't stem from a single application but from an interaction among the android o/s and several apps, including those that require periodic synching.

In such cases the o/s can become "confused" and when that happens, it usually has to be reloaded, an operation that (like a home computer) requires either rebooting (power cycling) or reloading from non-volatile memory (pulling the battery.) In rare cases, the o/s code may itself be "damaged," requiring a full factory reset. But that's rare.