So, a while ago I bought a cheapest oneplus 6 available in my area to subject it to a few experiments with running Linux. Among the other issues that came for that price, the power button was almost flush to the frame, hard to press, and had almost no feedback.

Today I finally got tired of it and decided to check what’s wrong. The button itself turned out to be just fine, but the thingy that presses it looked weird:

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After a few tries of gluing smth to extend the middle pin, I found out that I can just cut off a piece of plastic from the blister of my favorite headache pills and place it between the button and said thingy. Works wonders 🤣

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Btw, the actual problem is that it was missing a few rubber spacers, as far as I understand, but whatever

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