Hi all,
I'm having a few intermittent problems with my phone but before I start asking to have it swapped out, thought I'd check to see if they are just with my phone or if others have the same and if the latter, whether there are any workarounds. All are occasional but have happened enough times that it wasn't just a one-off glitch:
1 - using the physical keyboard when writing a text if I hold delete to get it to delete a sentence rather than pressing it repeatedly it deletes for a bit, then stops updating the display. You can keep pressing delete and it will delete characters, you can even move the cursor and delete characters from elsewhere but you need to close the keyboard and rotate the display before it updates the screen. While writing that it occurred to me I can't remember if other keypresses show up, whether holding any button pressed causes this, or whether it happens in apps other than the SMS app. Will try those later.
2 - wifi sometimes turns itself off for no reason. Not just not connecting or forgetting the password (although it occasionally does both of those too) but just disabling itself. I can pick the phone up to do something and notice no wireless icon and if I go into the communications part of settings, wireless is disabled and I need to reenable it for it to start working.
3 - the rotation sensor sometimes stops working and no screen rotations work. Sometimes restarting the phone doesn't help (but on that occasion shaking it and tapping it seemed to!) I once solved it by recalibrating the sensor (it froze a few days ago while I was using Teeter to demo the motion sensor to a friend) but it's not happened since then for me to try that again.
There are other niggles too, but those are things that I've already seen mention of - these three are things that I've not seen any other reference to but might be too minor or intermittent to be noted. Anyone else seen the same issues on another handset or is it just mine?
Cheers,
Steve.
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First, Sorry for my broken english
I want all Issues of the touch pro 2 ( rhodium ) posted in this thread.
Here are as far as i know
- Touch flo 3D isnt starting sometimes
- Sometimes, volume buttons dont work ( you will be returned to home screen when you push on it )
Please add more if known, so other people with same problem, can see if its known or not.
these past few days. my phone is acting weird. The screen keep rotating as if i open the keyboard (I enable the sound when opening the keyboard. that's how i notice it)
crashes if closing apps before they have fully loaded
intermittantly rotates the screen and gets stuck on what ever its rotated to
random crashing if you try and use it with some sort of speed it just cant cope and crashes. i now am wishing i never bothered with htc anymore but i know its not them its microsoft.
But pls also mention the software you all installed.
Especially this screen rotating is fascinating.
As bug I may ad the notitifaction queue which gets corrupted with duplicates.
maybe the push internet is doing that. (Separate post)
Can't dial from Bluetooth device (car handsfree) when device is locked
Had a strange one this morning. The phone received an sms, and it made it's bleep and vibration to let me know. But then it wouldn't stop vibrating. It went on for about 30 seconds. So I powered down with long push of power button, and selecting yes. It still vibrated after shutdown. So I went to take back off to try a soft reset, and then it stopped. Powered up, and no weird things like that. So put it down to a glitch...
My main issue is that reading an SMS doesn't always mark it as read. I will have to get the keyboard out and scroll through the messages with the arrow keys to "read" the messages I have in a thread.
I have Sprint Touch Pro 2 with the Sense 2.5 Rom. I installed Lock Device v1.6. It does lock the screen and it does seem to work as expected when I try testing it. I have it set to [lock on screen off] and I have [enabled] checked.
However, on a daily basis, when I pull my phone out of my case to use it at random times of the day, the phone is unlocked all by itself 90% of the time and of course unintended apps load and buttons pressed.
What is causing this to happen? I can't seem to generate this issue manually. There has to be something going on when the phone is in my case.
Also, I keep my phone on my dashboard in my car or on my seat when I'm driving. I noticed the phone will wake itself up randomly for no reason at all.
Are these 2 issues related? G-sensor issue maybe? Please shed some light and possibly any fixes.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
i tried this program for a few minutes...when your phone wakes up...with reminders etc...screen isn't completly locked...neither were the hard buttons...explains the apps starting up.
SupraFast said:
I have Sprint Touch Pro 2 with the Sense 2.5 Rom. I installed Lock Device v1.6. It does lock the screen and it does seem to work as expected when I try testing it. I have it set to [lock on screen off] and I have [enabled] checked.
However, on a daily basis, when I pull my phone out of my case to use it at random times of the day, the phone is unlocked all by itself 90% of the time and of course unintended apps load and buttons pressed.
What is causing this to happen? I can't seem to generate this issue manually. There has to be something going on when the phone is in my case.
Also, I keep my phone on my dashboard in my car or on my seat when I'm driving. I noticed the phone will wake itself up randomly for no reason at all.
Are these 2 issues related? G-sensor issue maybe? Please shed some light and possibly any fixes.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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Does this lock the hard keys for you?
Nvm it doesn't, just starts the stock lock screen when you push power. This doesn't lock hard or soft keys with an alarm, reminder, e-mail, missed call, etc... why your buttons are getting pushed when the phone wakes up.
I recently rooted my phone and removed some bloatware (all backed up btw) mainly the ones on the safe list in the thread posted about it here. I don't know if that is what is causing the following problem, but just to preface that if so.
I noticed it yesterday when I was trying to type something using swype, when I finished letting go the screen started to randomly tap and drag letters without me even touching it. I stopped had to turn the screen off/on to get it to stop. I also notice that if I hold the phone vertically and move it around a bit it starts to drag the home screens back and forth. Also when I am at the phone menu it's hard to tap the exact number I want. If I tap 5 say, it will randomly either tap 5 or 8. It's liek it's not calibrated.
So I go to the display to calibrate it and it kind of sort of alleviates some of the other issues, but I still have inaccurate touces. Is it a program I removed perhaps from htc that is necessary for the screen. Do I need to update the firmware on the rooted one?
Hey gang,
This has been going on a few months for me now, and can be pretty frustrating. Compounded by the fact that wi-fi in my own apt is occasionally shoddy with any device, (frequent disconnect/reconnect issue) sometimes it can be downright maddening. Thank god I have a dope case, because I have launched this ****er multiple times now as a result of the issue. Two factory resets have not solved the problem.
Every time my phone connects to or disconnects from any wi-fi source the phone freezes up completely and is unresponsive for anywhere from 5-20 seconds, pretty much immediately after the wi-fi toast message pops up (although occasionally the phone will freeze b4 toast message pops up). After it regains consciousness, the device will "catch up" with whatever inputs were made while it was frozen.
For example: Keyboard open, typing comment on reddit. Wi-fi toast message appears, phone becomes unresponsive. While unresponsive, if I tap 5, g, h, q, back button (touch key), home button (touch key); after becoming responsive again phone will swiftly type "5ghq," close keyboard (go back), then go home (home button) along with the associated haptic feedback responses occurring.
This also seems to be occuring occasionally when I receive text messages. Sometimes but not always. Though, if it happens with one txt received, I can safely assume it will continue to occur until after I restart or (maybe) put phone down for a while.
Restarting or not using phone for a while, however, has no effect on wifi issue. Wifi issue is occuring every single time, no matter what.
Its a minor inconvenience but can be quite irritating
Anyone else experiencing this or able to help? Thx.
Blob Blobbed said:
Hey gang,
This has been going on a few months for me now, and can be pretty frustrating. Compounded by the fact that wi-fi in my own apt is occasionally shoddy with any device, (frequent disconnect/reconnect issue) sometimes it can be downright maddening. Thank god I have a dope case, because I have launched this ****er multiple times now as a result of the issue. Two factory resets have not solved the problem.
Every time my phone connects to or disconnects from any wi-fi source the phone freezes up completely and is unresponsive for anywhere from 5-20 seconds, pretty much immediately after the wi-fi toast message pops up (although occasionally the phone will freeze b4 toast message pops up). After it regains consciousness, the device will "catch up" with whatever inputs were made while it was frozen.
For example: Keyboard open, typing comment on reddit. Wi-fi toast message appears, phone becomes unresponsive. While unresponsive, if I tap 5, g, h, q, back button (touch key), home button (touch key); after becoming responsive again phone will swiftly type "5ghq," close keyboard (go back), then go home (home button) along with the associated haptic feedback responses occurring.
This also seems to be occuring occasionally when I receive text messages. Sometimes but not always. Though, if it happens with one txt received, I can safely assume it will continue to occur until after I restart or (maybe) put phone down for a while.
Restarting or not using phone for a while, however, has no effect on wifi issue. Wifi issue is occuring every single time, no matter what.
Its a minor inconvenience but can be quite irritating
Anyone else experiencing this or able to help? Thx.
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I just updated to the DO17 and I am having the same issues... I come from a long line of rooting and rom flashing. This is the first phone I have had that is so locked down that I can literally do nothing.
After this last update I am experiencing the freezes and app crashes like you. It is very frustrating. This will be the last ATT phone I ever own
i have the same problem. not sure what causes this.
I managed to get Debian booting on my Gemini PDA wifi version pretty easily.
Certainly there are rough edges, but it looks like it will be useful...but for one problem. I can't reliably get it to sleep and wake.
I don't mean the "Sleep" and "Hibernate" options from the "Leave" menu--I have never gotten them to work at all. I'm just trying to get the "Off" feature on the Esc key to work. Or the lid close, either would do.
Trying to reproduce the problem I have had lots of theories of what exactly it takes to make it fail, but none seem to verify. The problem is frequent but erratic.
I do have a clue. The world map screen (the one with the various sized circles) where I type my password tends to do a brightness change; it appears bright, then I think adjusts to the ambient light. In the cases where I see it fail I think it does the same thing, but instead of adjusting to a new brightness it goes black. (No, I can't successfully type my password blind.)
When this does happen, I think the computer is still running, I think I have been ssh-ed in and that was still alive.
Any others had problems with the lockscreen and found what's the problem or a workaround?
Thanks,
-kb
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More experimenting and the lockscreen seems reliable as long as wifi is on. If wifi is turned off, it is unreliable. Not 100% failure, but significant.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
-kb, the Kent who wants wifi off to save power.
I can confirm this issue. And Wifi-on does not avoid it, as I had WiFi always on when this happened. Genrally Fn-ESC for screen locking works and unlocking (world map) also. But sometimes, always after longer times of inactivity, the device does not wake up at all. Screen stays black, blind-typing the password does not work, at least the screen stays black. Only solution in this case I found so far is Fn-ESC (aka "Off") until the device is powered off and reboot.
Edit:
Just happened quite shortly after a reboot, so the "always after longer period of inactivity" seems not to apply.
And the UI seems not to work/respond at all. Trying to - blindly, via keyboard - login and shutdown via systemmenu does not work too - typing pwd, Enter, Ctrl+Esc, three times cursor up, one time right, four times down and two times Enter
Partial workround
Using ssh
sudo service sddm restart
gets you to the initial login screen.
As I'm not allowed to post links: See my post on oesf.org forum, topic 35528 for further comments/notes