Nexus 5: Bootloop? No! Sticky Power Switch!

Sly’s Nexus went into a boot loop this afternoon while we were at Burrito Village. I’ve got her on the stock OTA image so no booting to a recovery image for us, which would have been so easy to fix.

No instead, I did some quick Googling and discovered that, over time, the power button the Nexus 5 is prone to getting ‘sticky’ to the point that the power will continue to cycle so it looks like a problem with the kernel but it’s not. It’s strictly mechanical.

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