Powering On Nexus One Without The Power Button

Powering On Nexus One Without The Power Button

My Nexus One phone has been suffering for a long time now, but lately the power button stopped responding. I knew it is a matter of time that the phone will be turned off somehow and I won't be able to turn it back on.

I bought a new phone Galaxy SIII and started planning the migration.
First of all I had to remove the SIM card from the nexus one without turning off the phone otherwise I won't be able to access my apps and stuff.

I had to practice removing the SIM card without removing the battery, I do have another Nexus one "which I borrowed from a friend of mine 2 months ago to do some testing after he fed up with it and migrated to another phone" :) 

After a few exercises I mastered the removal by sliding the battery a little bit "30 degrees" then removing the SIM card.

SIM was removed successfully and the Nexus One was still powered on.
After removing the SIM card I went to the store to cut the SIM it to Micro-SIM to fit in the new phone.

The SIM is now working on the S3 and migrating apps was very smooth.

The other day I forgot to charge the poor Nexus One and found it dead on the desk.

Then I wanted to go through the extra mile and try to find a way to power it on.

After a while I found out that if you do the below steps you will be able to turn it on again without the power button.

1. Get the Nexus One, a USB charging cable and find a power source.
2. Plug the USB cable into the power source and connect it to the phone
3. Wait for the charging indicator LED to come on.
4. Disconnect the battery (leaving the USB cable connected)
5. Wait for the charging indicator LED to turn off
6. Reconnect the battery: the phone will turn on

Note: Step 6 above must be done before the charging-indicator starts flashing. This will take 2-3 seconds from the time you've disconnected the battery (Step 4). Then the phone will indicate the battery was disconnected by flashing the indicator and then the indicator will become solid again. You have to reconnect the battery while the indicator is off.


Do you have an Android Phone? Does the above method work for you?
If it does, please reply and mention the device model. Thanks!

Are you a blogger? Registering a domain with Google?

Are you a blogger? Are you thinking about registering a domain with Google?
Then yo need to be prepared to be surprised with the technical issue that I will describe in this post.

The other day, I have registered a domain name for my blog www.thevirtualtravelers.com after proceeding with the payment I got an email instructing me to click on a link to setup my domain.

One click and I was there, entering a username and password only to receive an the following error message:

"Server error We are unable to process your request at this time, please try again later."

I came later to try again but with no luck!! I slept on it for a night but still getting the same error message every time I do the instructions.

I Googled the error to find out that many customers were complaining about the issue and some of them has been complaining on Google forum for 8 months! Still to-date, there is no reply on that post. "I am planning to post a link to this post when I am done"

On another post I found out the below 

"Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted about this but I figured out the problem.

You have to follow the link you got in your Google Apps e-mail (or the one below replaced with your website where it says YOURWEBSITE.com

https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/setup/YOURWEBSITE.com

Then you want to press the ‘Cant access your account?’ link, and then ‘reset the administrator password’ link on the next page. 

From there, it’ll send a link to your e-mail, and you should be fine with the rest.

Let me know if you've fixed it.

Kind Regards,

Ben."

Of course another user "Top Contributor" had to point out the name of the administrator account which was "bloggeradmin"

I walked through the password reset procedure and I was able to finally login to my control panel. Of course the first thing I did was to change the username.

While I am inside the "Users" section of the cpanel I got this notification:

You have reached the 1 user limit for this organization. To add more users, please purchase Google Apps for Business.

No wonder I was not able to create a new user with the instructions provided by the email received after the payment!

This problem didn't appear until Google decided to stop the Google Apps for Free and since that date everyone who try to buy a domain name from Google through Blogger.com  will be facing this issue.

Google needs to address this issue ASAP. The solution shouldn't be that complicated after all! Right?

Updates 22-6-2013: I guess I was the last person to buy a domain from withing blogger.com because I logged in today to buy another domain only to find out that this feature is not there anymore.