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r/Nexus5•
jasher

Tried updating, phone keeps rebooting after a while.

So I've attempted to update my N5 to 6.0.1. It didn't go too well, as I've forgotten that to update while rooted/custom recovery, you need to return to stock first...

Anyway, after that everything seemed to work just fine for a day, and then my phone started randomly rebooting after 5-10 minutes of flawless operation. When I click teh power button, the phone screen goes off only to light up after a second as if I'd pressed it for a longer time, showing me the turn off option.

I am confused now, Is it possible that the attempted update did this, or did my power button break and it just coincided with the update?

Posted Dec 23, 2015, 10:13 AM UTC

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WulfySky•

I had the exact same thing last week, your phone thinks the power button is being held down. I fixed mine by hitting the power button on the side of table a couple of times.

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prodigize32GB•

I tried this and in my case it did not work. Do you think that the inner power button could be stuck to something and I can unstuck it by removing the motherboard and fiddle with the inner button?

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WulfySky•

Yes

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jasherOP16GB|Root|Stock•

Idk if this was just me, but I tried that yesterday, and it worked better for twice the tme it usually took to reboot. Which was 20mins inestead of 10.

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prodigize32GB•

I am also having this issue. I was running stock Android and updated to 6.0.1. Several days later my Nexus 5 keeps rebooting up to the Google screen then turn black. However if I keep mashing the power button, it can do a full boot up to the normal homepage. If I stop spamming the button, the phone turns black and bootloops again. I went to a phone repair store and gave them my phone. I come back in a week, which was yesterday morning, and they said they couldn't figure out what the problem was. Turns out all they tried to fix was the LCD, which was clearly never the problem. I've looked around the internet, most people blame it on the power button, and I will try to to visit another repair shop and see if that's the case. If anyone have any expertise in the problem that could shed some light that'd be great.

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WulfySky•

Hitting the power button on a table a couple of times fixed it for me.

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jasherOP16GB|Root|Stock•

I kind o jumped to the power button solution at first, but I'm not really keen on buying a replacement, only to learn this wasn't it, so I wanted to see if anyone's got any similar issues and was able to pin it to a software problem first.

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bactchan•

I'm also having the power button issue and running cyanogenmod, both on the L and M platforms. Massive pain in my ass

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