You might be interested in physically swapping the power and camera buttons, which has helped a lot of people with slim case + power button problems already (including me) …
The buttons are embedded in flexible strips. These strips are fixated to the case on both sides of each button. It isn’t so obvious at first, but you can carefully pull the strips (including the buttons) off those fixating points. And if you’ve done that, you can carefully fixate the strip with the camera button to the power button’s place (if it won’t snap in place easily, use a fingernail or some not too sharp tip of some kind to gently push it in place) and the strip with the power button in…
Or you could contact Fairphone, they acknowledged this problem …
Hey all,
Thank you for your feedback and thanks to the ones who submitted their faulty cases for us to review. It has helped us a lot.
The issue was caused by the combination of some dimensional differences between FP2 engines and the top cover/power button assembly. When the dimension tolerances are at the extreme ends for both, then together they may cause problems. We’ve fixed the tool for the power button to ensure we do not have that corner case.
If your case is causing reboots, please g…
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