Can a broken power button be fixed?

can it?

Apple doesn't fix phones, they replace them. If under warranty there will be no charge to you. If not under warranty, you will pay $149 for an iPhone 4, $199 for a 4S. The iPhone 5 is still under warranty unless there's obvious user damage, then you would pay $229.

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This is bad, but i tried jailbraking my iphone
You may as well stop there. We can't help you.

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I am considering the purchase of this iMac. It has a broken power button. What are the implications of this? The present owner says that he just plugs it in and it starts up, and that besides he just leaves it on all the time anyway. How big of an issue is this? Can you advise me on how easy a power button might be to repair or if it is very necessary to repair it (assuming their is a workaround-keyboard startup?).
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or other parts as you find them; or if you are technically minded and have
a good attention to detail with adequate work habits, fix it yourself. The
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was intended for trained personnel, and damages worse than the first
problem may result from improper procedures being done inside the iMac.
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.. I'm clearly starting to dislike this company and seriously considering switching to someone else.

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Hi,
I have an iBook G4 that does not turn on. The power button is unresponsive and doesn't do anything when pressed.
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It's a school issued computer so I can't open it up, and since it's summer break I can't take it to our tech office.
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The Power Key is about it, for starting up an iBook.
There may be something else wrong with the computer
which an expert or genius may be able to perform a
basic troubleshooting effort to find what that may be.
Troubleshooting portables that won't turn on or start up:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25686
Some processes to troubleshoot and try to get it to work
may involve several different things; including seeing if
the computer could work with the power adapter only,
with the battery removed. Or see if the power adapter
may be needed to start the computer. Narrowing down
the possible sources of problems, to include inspection
to see if the power button is broken, would be needed.
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is good and not been used up, perhaps simply resetting
the Power Management Unit (PMU) may help.
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reasonable distance, a call ahead to see if they have
an available genius or other person at a specific time
who can look over your computer; this may be helpful.
I suspect the issue may not be the Power Key; but
if that is the case, it would require a repair. And if
that happened to be the situation, someone at the
school would have to authorize it (unless you were
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Actually, if it's the Power key, a technician would have
to take the computer apart down to the logic board...
& a tech could decide how or what to do about it. In
some cases, certain repairs may be costly.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
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my ipod touch power button is broken and in recovery mode i tried to restore it but it didnt work i mean iTunes was there and it said do u want to restore it when it looked like it was done nothing happened

The Power Key is about it, for starting up an iBook.
There may be something else wrong with the computer
which an expert or genius may be able to perform a
basic troubleshooting effort to find what that may be.
Troubleshooting portables that won't turn on or start up:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25686
Some processes to troubleshoot and try to get it to work
may involve several different things; including seeing if
the computer could work with the power adapter only,
with the battery removed. Or see if the power adapter
may be needed to start the computer. Narrowing down
the possible sources of problems, to include inspection
to see if the power button is broken, would be needed.
If the battery is fully charged, and this implies the cell
is good and not been used up, perhaps simply resetting
the Power Management Unit (PMU) may help.
Without seeing the computer, some things are more
trial and error than others. If an Apple Store is within
reasonable distance, a call ahead to see if they have
an available genius or other person at a specific time
who can look over your computer; this may be helpful.
I suspect the issue may not be the Power Key; but
if that is the case, it would require a repair. And if
that happened to be the situation, someone at the
school would have to authorize it (unless you were
to be generous and send it off to someone capable
such as wegenermedia.com for a quality repair.)
Actually, if it's the Power key, a technician would have
to take the computer apart down to the logic board...
& a tech could decide how or what to do about it. In
some cases, certain repairs may be costly.
The instructions here are on how to perform a PMU reset:
Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Good luck & happy computing!
edited.

Note retreival from dead phone with broken power button

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iPhone 5 says "iphone is disabled", the top power button is broken, no possible way of putting in the passcode. Need to restore/restart/unlock/whatever it.
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Try this:
Use Find My iPhone
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