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On 2025-04-21 23:44, VanguardLH wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Not on mine.  The combo Power button & fingerprint scanner also work
> just by tapping the button.  Depressing it is not necessary to unlock
> the phone since that is a fingerprint action.

Sure, if the sensor reads the correct finger print, it doesn't need 
depressing, the screen lights up, open. But if I press with my nail, it 
powers up, locked, and I can draw the decoding shape with a finger to 
open it up.

>  When locked, tapping the
> button unlocks the phone.  I can short press the button to immediately
> lock (or alternatively double-tap the screen in a blank area).  A
> long-press is supposed to show the Power Off, Restart, and Turn On
> Airplane Mode options; however, after short-pressing to lock,
> withdrawing my finger gets interpreted as the tap-to-unlock action.

Yours is badly designed, trying to imitate models where it works 
properly :-P

> 
> With my short fingernails, tapping or pushing with them on the button is
> interpreted the same as using my finger tip.

You can use the reverse side of your finger, pressing effectively with 
the flat nail. Or use the not pointed side of a pencil.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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