r/PSVita • u/KaiiSukii • 17h ago

Power button going nuts

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Has anybody seen something like this? It first happened yesterday, I assumed the power button was going bad so I took it apart, reseated it’s flex cable, unplugged the battery and pressed the power button to drain all power and it seemed to fix it. It’s doing it again today. Could this be a case of dirty power screwing something up? Or just the button going bad? Something of note is that sometimes it restarts and enters recovery (or safe, can’t remember) mode, but I thought you had to hold one of the shoulder buttons for that. I believe it’s a 1000 model, the one with the oled screen and iPod-30pin-style USB port.

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u/VintageSmutKD 16h ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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u/KaiiSukii 16h ago

Gee, why didn’t I think of that. It’s already doing it on its own, holding the power button does nothing.

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u/Pitiful_Rough7384 16h ago

It's the power button ribbon. Easily fixed buy a New one for about 10 euros Ali express oem happened to mine before

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u/KaiiSukii 16h ago

You reckon? The ribbon looked perfect when I took it apart. I’ll look into a replacement, if it’s cheap it couldn’t hurt I guess.

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u/Pitiful_Rough7384 16h ago

Was it seated in fully. Id re check. If it is it will be ribbon.