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On 2025-04-20 23:04, VanguardLH wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>
>>> This phone combine the Power button and fingerprint reader.  The problem
>>> with that design is sometime you are trying to power off the phone, but
>>> it instead thinks you are trying to scan your fingerprint.
>>
>> Just use your nail.
> 
> I cut mine short, so pressing the edge of the nail means my finger tip
> also presses against the Power/fingerprint button.  Maybe an upside-down
> finger to press just the fingernail against the Power button might work,
> but remember this is a capacitance button, 

No, it is a standard button that moves. Does nothing until clicked.

> so a fingernail (presumably
> attached to a finger) also changes capacitance.  My fingernail (edge or
> just the nail) works just the same as pressing a finger tip.  Maybe your
> phone lets you adjust the sensitivity of the capacitance change.  Mine
> does not.
> 
>>> Another design defect is using the Power button to sleep the phone.
>>> You want to power off, but as you withdraw your finger then it
>>> thinks you want to come out of sleep mode.
>>
>> Not a problem. Power off is a long press.
> 
> Unless interpreted as a lock action.  And withdrawing your finger does
> not get interpreted as an unlock action.  Long press should work as
> described, but doesn't always.
> 
>> I have two motorolas with the finger sensor on the power button, and it
>> is not a problem at all. It is well designed.
> 
> Could be a design difference, like in the delays between finger press
> and finger removal, or capacitance sensitivty.
> 
> Fingerprint sensors have changed over the years.  My LG V20 was
> introduced in September 2016, discontinued in 2019 (no further OS
> updates after that), and LG left the smartphone market in April 2021.
> Mine came with Android 7, and got 1 OS update to 8.0.0.  I'm not going
> to root my phone to get some unknown's firmware to allow me to update to
> a later Android.
> 
> The OP's moto g100 was introduced in March 2021, came with Android 11,
> and upgradeable to Android 12.  No idea if the OP can get later versions
> of Android without rooting.
> 
> I don't know which moto phones you have.  As to the behavior for the
> OP's phone, the OP probably best knows from experience unless one of
> yours is also a moto g100.

G52 and G52.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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