https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/z-series/side-buttons-dont-work-at-all/m-p/3596736#M117815 <P>Even after a factory reset the phone doesn't even recognise me touching the side buttons never mind functioning.</P><P>I need help I am panicking and use my phone daily for work.</P> Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:25:29 GMT SH1212 2017-12-07T00:25:29Z https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/z-series/side-buttons-dont-work-at-all/m-p/3596736#M117815 <P>Even after a factory reset the phone doesn't even recognise me touching the side buttons never mind functioning.</P><P>I need help I am panicking and use my phone daily for work.</P> Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:25:29 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/z-series/side-buttons-dont-work-at-all/m-p/3596736#M117815 SH1212 2017-12-07T00:25:29Z https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/z-series/side-buttons-dont-work-at-all/m-p/3596737#M117816 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><A href="https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/364671">@SH1212</A> wrote:<BR /><P>Even after a factory reset the phone doesn't even recognise me touching the side buttons never mind functioning.</P><P>I need help I am panicking and use my phone daily for work.</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Do they have any tactile resistance or feedback?</P><P>after pulling one of my z5c apart and setting everything inside, I can say that it will be fragile in a sense where time and heat could probably accelerate manufacturing defects in the plastic which would cause it to snap... the buttons on the side are one long thin piece of plastic inside, that push on to electronic switches directly... unlike the keys on a computer keyboard that have their own mechanical components for each individual key</P> Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:02:53 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/z-series/side-buttons-dont-work-at-all/m-p/3596737#M117816 NeoBeum 2017-12-07T01:02:53Z