What the title says. When it reboots, the screen just turns black without any warning or pop up windows. (Though I think I have seen a very dim flash of a red warning strip across the screen one time when using it in the dark.)

I also have a suspicion that the power button might be failing. I generally have to click it harder for it to lock the screen now, and sometimes it opens up the power menu when I only clicked it once.
Would a failing/stuck power button also cause this rebooting behavior?

Thanks!

Edit: Thanks for the help, guys! I think I’ll get my phone checked for a stuck power button some time. Shame I use it often for the camera shortcut.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I had the same problem with my pixel 3, it had a faulty power button that would keep stuck on pressed and force a reboot

    How I “solved” it:

    1. Use a TPU cover
    2. Only block the screen with double tap on empty spot on launcher
    3. Only wake up with double tap on screen

    Symptoms that I had:

    1. If I enabled the emergency mode that sounds alarms when the power button is pressed 5 times in a row very fast, it would accidentally sound the alarm if my finger touched the button

    2. I could not easily turn on the phone if it was turned off

    3. The phone would sometimes bootloop until I gently smashed the phone on the side on the corner of a table (to unstuck the button)

    4. If during the “bootloop”, I pressed the volume button, it would go in recovery, which indicates the power button was stuck

    5. Without the TPU phone cover I could lock the screen with a very very light touch on the power button

    I didn’t get to ask how much money was required to fix it because shortly after I accidentally dropped it and got green hair lines on the screen, so I just sold it for parts on ebay

    • falkerie71OPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Thanks! I think I’ll get that checked soon. Shame that I press it often for the camera shortcut. Maybe that’s the reason why it broke.

    • AZERTY@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Fuck I’m an idiot. I was like what emergency mode and clicked my power button 5 times. You get like 4 seconds to cancel it lmao

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        imagine me, at 4am, watching the phone at 4am, touching the power button to see what time is it, and accidentally triggering it, panic for everyone lol