1080386 - [Flame] lockscreen enabled: long pressing power button reboots

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Frederik Braun [:freddy]]

STR:
1) Lock screen
2) Hold power button
3) power/reboot/airplane mode dialog comes up. Keep holding the button
4) It takes some time, keep holding
5) Phone reboots

What should happen: Phone should not reboot.

Sometimes when I kneel or sit cross-legged, I accidentally long-press the power button. So this is a bit annoying. :)

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

I think this is a low-level control feature, which allow user to restart the device during software layer unresponsive, rather than having to cut off the power supply (battery).

So, I guess this should be WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Dee]

I can confirm this and it happens daily (sometimes several times a day). It's really annoying.

I think that if you do need to restart your phone because the common restart or switch off won't work, your smallest problem is to remove the battery for a second.

Comment 3

[Mike Habicher [:mikeh] (high bugzilla latency)]

I've noticed that a long press is able to restart the phone from most (all?) crash/hang/lock/blackscreen conditions, so my guess is it's a hardware feature that triggers a cold system reset.

Comment 4

[Dee]

Can we get any official opinion if this is a bug or a feature? If it's a feature please let the users know and close this entry. Best regards!

Comment 5

[Frederik Braun [:freddy]]

I think this is intended. Many other phones show a similar behavior.

Comment 6

[Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]]

Yes, this is intended behavior and happens outside of Firefox OS too. Long-pressing the power button for long enough will force a hard-reboot on the phone and we have no control over it.