> MrWorm wrote:
> "Marian Rosenberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> The two main menu buttons on the keypad of my Nokia 3650 are flaking out
> on me.
>
> Yesterday, I couldn't get the left hand button to work. This problem
> went away when I removed the faceplate and put it back on again.
>
> Then, this morning, neither button would work. Even with the faceplate
> removed and gentle pressure on the spot that the button touched it
> refused to do anything. I put the faceplate back on, and turned the
> phone off then on again and voila ... working buttons.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing such a problem and how
> I might be able to keep it from happening again without going to a
> service center. Although these kinds of phones are for sale in the city
> I work in, I bought my phone in my home city ... 7000 miles away.
>
> -M
>
>
>
> It was probably dust there. Might have been very small particles altough.
> Try to blow it clean with compressed air or similar.
>
> It's done it again, twice more for a total of four times.
>
> The third time, when I removed the snap cover and keypad I tried gently
> pressing the flat spot that the keypad presses and neither of the spots
> that corresponded to malfunctioning buttons made a "beep" noise. All of
> the spots that went to working buttons made the noise.
>
> Because the phone was locked, I had to turn it off by pulling the battery.
> With the battery back in, it was happy to work.
>
> The fourth time nothing I tried would work. So, I went to the nokia site

> I was all prepared to go and get a coworker to be my designated Speaker
> of Chinese when the previously set alarm went off. Without thinking
> about the fact that they weren't working I pressed one of the nonworking
> buttons to turn off the alarm. And, it turned off the alarm. 5 hours
> and counting that the buttons are working again. For now.

In the period of time since I posted this on August 25th the keypad
briefly stopped working once again in early September. Making the alarm
clock go off fixed the problem that time.

Now the two important buttons have been refusing to do anything AGAIN
this time for about 7 hours already. I have pulled the battery. I have
turned the phone on and off. I have made alarms go off. And nothing at
all is making it work.

help me...

I don't think it is dust. There does not seem to be anything
interfering between the number doohickey and the flat spots under the
snap cover. But the flat spots aren't responding. And then the phone
will do something like ring an alarm and it will go back to working.

-M



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