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On 2025-04-20 21:26, VanguardLH wrote:
> db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> 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.

>  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.

>  I have the same setup on my LG phone.  Although
> I have 8 fingerprints recorded, seems the first one (right index finger)
> is the one more likely to get the Power button to work as a power button
> instead of trying to scan my finger or to go on/out of sleep mode.  It
> may help to go into the Android setting to General -> Lock -> Power key
> instantly locks to turn that off.  Another option under the fingerprint
> options is to enable/disable using the fingerprint scanner to unlock the
> phone.  Quite often I press the Power button to unlock, but it
> immediately relocks as I'm drawing away my finger, so I have to press
> and release the Power button VERY quickly to unlock.  Still a bit flaky,
> but not as much.  I have to apply and hold my finger until the buzz ends
> for recognizing my finger, and then slow press in the Power button to
> lock.  To unlock, I have to press the Power button very quickly (press
> and withdraw fast) to unlock; else, it thinks it is supposed to relock
> right after unlocking.  Next phone I get will have the fingerprint
> scanner under the front glass instead of combined with the Power button.

I have two motorolas with the finger sensor on the power button, and it 
is not a problem at all. It is well designed.

> 
>> I also tried sticking a paper clip into the small hole at the top, which I
>> thought is for a reset, but no good there either.
> 
> My guess is you stabbed the headphone jack.
> 
> https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g100-10791.php
> 
> Says it has a 3.5 mm [headphone] jack.  That's disappeared in a lot of
> newer phones forcing you to switch to Bluetooth headsets.  Carlos' guess
> was a mic port, but I think that would be too small for a paper clip
> unless it was a thin mini-clip.

It is the exact size for a paper clip. I just tried carefully without 
pushing it inside, half a millilitre.


> There is no recessed Reset button in any cell phone I've ever seen. It's
> a phone, not a router or cable modem.

Right. And it would be documented.

> 
>> What would do this?
> 
> An app.  Look at what you've installed.  You might find a lot of them,
> especially if you used them only once or twice over a long time, are no
> longer needed, or there are non-adware apps to do the same thing.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Frozeo phone db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2025-04-20 13:38 +0000
  Re: Frozeo phone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-20 20:04 +0200
  Re: Frozeo phone VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-20 14:26 -0500
    Re: Frozeo phone VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-20 14:45 -0500
      Re: Frozeo phone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-20 22:08 +0200
        Re: Frozeo phone Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-04-20 22:27 +0200
        Re: Frozeo phone VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-20 16:18 -0500
    Re: Frozeo phone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-20 21:46 +0200
      Re: Frozeo phone VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-20 16:04 -0500
        Re: Frozeo phone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-21 14:37 +0200
          Re: Frozeo phone VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-21 16:44 -0500
            Re: Frozeo phone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-22 07:16 +0200
  Re: Frozeo phone Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-04-22 03:50 +0200

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