How can I fix my Motorola Droid RAZR power button?

"My wife just had the same thing happen to her RAZR. She took it to the VerizonWireless store. They told her they don't repair phones and, since our phones aren't insured, they started talking to her about payment plans for a new phone (at full price).

Long story short...

I told her to come home and I'll check all our options. That's when I found your question here. I downloaded Smart Screen On, but it didn't really work for me. I found out it was created for the Samsung Galaxy and not guaranteed to work on other devices. I figured I'd reboot the phone in case the proximity sensor wasn't engaged. Well, what do you know? Rebooting fixed the power button!

Here's how:

Hold the power button down while pressing the down (-) volume button on the phone. Hold that until the Motorola logo appears and the boot up sequence starts."

"IMPORTANT: note that sometimes the battery will be completely dead and the use of the volume down plus the power button won't perform the soft reset.

The battery can go dead suddenly for various reasons which I won't discuss here since I don't know much about that.

To revive your phone:

Plug the phone into your charger overnight.

THEN first hold down the volume down button, and then also hold down the power button and keep both pressed. It can take as long as a minute or more for the reset to be performed. The reset is intended to do the same thing as removing and replacing the battery on phones with removable batteries.

If the phone doesn't then come alive stop pressing the buttons and give it a little time. If it still does not come alive it is possible your internal battery failed completely and must be replaced. But you can try the charge and reset a few more times, hold down the buttons shorter or longer, etc. If those don't work get on the forums again and search for more answers before you go to the trouble of replacing the battery."

I had the same problem. I am close to my upgrade date and don't want to spend the money to fix it. I found an app in the google play store called smart screen on, it works to get your screen to turn on. The one thing that I found was that I tried to wave my hand to fast. It requires a simple paced wave or tap on you screen sensor.

This doesn't work for me at all... I understand the concept and I realize this is the first droid with a built in battery that can be reset. But my power lock button is NOT WORKING, so when I go to reset IT DOESN'T WORK because it required the power button... Holding power & volume up, power & volume down, and power with both volume buttons does nothing. I've done all three multiple times for the past 3 hours. Makes sense to reset the phone to make a button work WITH the button that doesn't work??? I'm glad everyone else fixed the issue but it's not working here.

"I had the same problem and found this site. However, after a couple of hours it crossed my mind that it possibly had something to do with the charger or battery. I notice a couple of days before that although plugged in it was not charging up at all. At that tiem I unplugged it from the wall socket and placed it somewhere else and it worked. This did not happen tonight I decided to remove the USB part of the charger from the plug and inserted the USB into my computer. The mobile phone started to charge. I hope this is all it is for others.

After the phone has nearly charged I will try putting the USB back into the plug and make sure it is fully fitted in and place it in the wall socket. If it does not work, maybe it will be the fuse in the plug."

I had the exact same issue and I held down the power and volume down buttons and it worked like a charm. Its all fixed!! Great advice!