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[Q] Wife Claims Ghost Buttons During Calls

So whenever I talk to my wife she always ends up hitting buttons on the screen. (mute, speaker, etc) I told her that the screen should automatically turn off and that maybe something was wrong with her device. As soon as I got home I tested it and it worked just fine. I couldn't get it to happen, light sensor was very responsive.
Somehow she manages to hit buttons and I have no idea how. I covered up the light sensor and tried hitting every button/screen area and nothing happened.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Is there something I can settings/mods wise to help?

DanBergundy said:
So whenever I talk to my wife she always ends up hitting buttons on the screen. (mute, speaker, etc) I told her that the screen should automatically turn off and that maybe something was wrong with her device. As soon as I got home I tested it and it worked just fine. I couldn't get it to happen, light sensor was very responsive.
Somehow she manages to hit buttons and I have no idea how. I covered up the light sensor and tried hitting every button/screen area and nothing happened.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Is there something I can settings/mods wise to help?
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Woman + X = No longer functioning properly

illogic6 said:
Woman + X = No longer functioning properly
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Another funny thing is she said her boss at work has the same problem (female) and her husband has no issue.... Ha! I don't think they have Evos though.

my wife was having the same problem and we narrowed it down to her hair causing interference with the screen sensing that her face was against it. dont know if that makes sense but seemed logical to us and now that she tries to be aware of it and move her hair out of the way the problem doesnt seem to exist. hope this helps.

freaknjoe said:
my wife was having the same problem and we narrowed it down to her hair causing interference with the screen sensing that her face was against it. dont know if that makes sense but seemed logical to us and now that she tries to be aware of it and move her hair out of the way the problem doesnt seem to exist. hope this helps.
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Weird! Does the screen actually turn on then? I should watch the screen next time she makes a call on it.

yeah the screen was turning on while she was using it. i think whenever she would basically readjust the phone against her head it would happen if the hair would cause interference...again i'm not claiming this is some scientific answer but its what we found seemed to be causing issues for her

freaknjoe said:
yeah the screen was turning on while she was using it. i think whenever she would basically readjust the phone against her head it would happen if the hair would cause interference...again i'm not claiming this is some scientific answer but its what we found seemed to be causing issues for her
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I see, thanks.

My wife had the same issue...earrings.

Yep, Yep. My wife has the same issue but I've never had a problem. I'm going to show her this thread so that at least she knows it's not just her. lol.

Lappie2010 said:
My wife had the same issue...earrings.
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How would the earrings affect it?

I think it's actually the proximity sensor being highly in tune to how close it needs to be to the ear/face. It takes very little movement of the phone during a call to trigger the sensor and turn the screen back on. They probably don't even realize they're moving the phone as much as they are.

Crotchety said:
I think it's actually the proximity sensor being highly in tune to how close it needs to be to the ear/face. It takes very little movement of the phone during a call to trigger the sensor and turn the screen back on. They probably don't even realize they're moving the phone as much as they are.
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During a call, I pulled the phone away, moved it around, etc and watched for screen to come one. It did not come on easily. I don't get it.
I need to watch her during a call and test some things.

My sis has the same issues with the moment, and I tried it out and it was fine. She does seem to use it outside her hair and does have a lot of earrings. Though this is the Moment, it still runs android and has the sensors. I'll let her know and see if she'll enjoy her phone again lol.

ReFLeX135 said:
My sis has the same issues with the moment, and I tried it out and it was fine. She does seem to use it outside her hair and does have a lot of earrings. Though this is the Moment, it still runs android and has the sensors. I'll let her know and see if she'll enjoy her phone again lol.
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Still not sure what the issue/solution even is.

She picked up my phone last night and accidentally hung up on the person during the call! I didn't get a chance to see what happened...
She's starting to hate these phones. I need a solution.

Not a joke...but are these ladies blonds? At start of thread I was thinking hair color or earrings too. But earrings shouldn't impact the sensor as it is up top of phone and earrings would be down toward the screen.
But...if their hair was very light color...and they had phone only loosely pressed to head, I could 'guess' that the hair had enough light reflecting through it to set off the sensor.
Another thing to check on the earring side....what part of phone contacts first...do earrings hit the screen before head covers up the sensor?

My wife had dark brown hair :x

My wife too. Dark brown hair. With and without earrings. Swapped out one device, same problem. She even made it happen on mine.
I have seen it get in a mode where the proximity sensor seems to get reversed. Near head, screen on, away from head screen off. A button gets pushed at some point and then when the screen is on you can't un-mute, un-speaker, or answer a returned call from the one she just hung up on.
I think we are going to have to get her a different phone

I have the same issue but it only seems to come up with AOSP ROM's (Cyanogen & UD)
If I call Sprint and hit the prompts followed by putting the phone to my ear it presses other numbers. I think there is a delay in the proximity sensor that's causing this. I don't have long hair and my face is clean shaved so it's not that.
If I go to show someone that when everything works perfect. It's like when you call tech support for Dell, Netgear, etc. It works when you're on the phone with them and when you get off it doesn't.

I've noticed this in the past. If you are talking on the phone and you cant it just a little bit away from your ear, towards your face, you can see the backlight come back on. Also, hair can carry a static charge. So if your ladies cant the phone and the screen turns on, their hair could trigger a button press.

[Q] Power Button

Seems like my power buttons became really sensitive from turning on the phone. Has this happened to any of u? I mean is so sensitive i think even the wind can turn on my phone now!!!

jmak512 said:
Seems like my power buttons became really sensitive from turning on the phone. Has this happened to any of u? I mean is so sensitive i think even the wind can turn on my phone now!!!
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I don't have that problem. That's rather odd, I've never heard of that happening. Maybe you got some debris under the button and that's adding pressure to the sensor, and that pressure makes it nearly activated and only needs a small additional amount of pressure to fully activate it? That's the only reason I can think of lol.
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I have heard of a few ppl who had similar issues, not very many shouldnt be a prob i would check it like the other guy said tho, i think it was a similar post also. I personally pretty much always have a case on unless im not working. So im thinking thats helped me, ive had mine since may and no probs with that
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I have been having the same problem. The button will still "click" but it will turn on well before it clicks. It will turn on by just resing my finger on part of it. I was wondering if there is anything I can do short of permantly voiding my warranty by taking it apart and replacing the power button. This only started happening after I think I dropped my phone on the power button with a case on. I still have one replacement left with Verizon but that would require turning s-on and returning my phone to stock. I also want to keep my amoled screen. Does anyone have any insight in this matter?

[Q] Help! Smashed screen, unresponsive phone

So, the worst happened. My one year old (OLED) Desire got pile-drived hard into the concrete. Needless to say the screen smashed (the panel itself, not the covering glass/plastic) and now it wont respond to power on or charging. I know my chances of HTC repair are very small, so what can I do myself? There are a few "for spares" kicking around on eBay, is it possible I could just swap the screens out and it'll work?
I'm pretty desperate right now, can anyone give any advice? please?
And before the haters hate with "you shouldn't have dropped it", id like to point out it wasn't my fault.

Peelypeel said:
So, the worst happened. My one year old (OLED) Desire got pile-drived hard into the concrete. Needless to say the screen smashed (the panel itself, not the covering glass/plastic) and now it wont respond to power on or charging. I know my chances of HTC repair are very small, so what can I do myself? There are a few "for spares" kicking around on eBay, is it possible I could just swap the screens out and it'll work?
I'm pretty desperate right now, can anyone give any advice? please?
And before the haters hate with "you shouldn't have dropped it", id like to point out it wasn't my fault.
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Hmm swapping out the screen is quite easy IIRC you just need to make sure you get if from a OLED not AMOLED desire (although I remember reading a thread about swapping them so you could go AMOLED if you find the thread).
However you also say if doesn't power on or respond? This is worrying, fixing a screen is one thing but this.... Have you tried ringing it after turning it on just to confirm it does not turn on?
Good luck anyway, hope you can get if fixed for minimum cost!
EDIT: Here's that thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768535

Thanks for that. No I haven't tried ringing it, but surely no vibrate + no LED + no screen output means its really not powering on.

Peelypeel said:
Thanks for that. No I haven't tried ringing it, but surely no vibrate + no LED + no screen output means its really not powering on.
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if the screen is smashed then its going to be hard to see if its booting any thing, as for no vibrate that might mean one of the motors for the vibrate has been knocked out of its place and jammed so it cant vibrate. I must admit if it was that bad of a drop then dont hold much hope for it

Yeah, calling does nothing. It really is dead isn't it Anything likely the cause? like the phone purposely wont boot if a specific part is broken, or is like the mobo probably dead?

[Q] Anyone else noticed strange colors?

Just have been noticing some off colors that look washed out sometimes on EG22. I haven't noticed this before, however, about two weeks ago I had to get a new phone when mine met concrete, so it could be this screen's issue, or EG22. Not sure.

If youre running a theme, I heard that some of the images could come out brighter but thats a concern for the themers so my guess would be when the phone had its date with the concrete
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Sometimes this may happen due to the kernel itself, when we get source, im sure someone will put in a voodoo color mod into the kernels to make the colors more natural.

Its not about natural looking colors. Every once in awhile I will hit the power button the lock scfeen will come up and you can tell the display just looks a little off. If you hit the power button again, turn it off, then turn it back on again often times it has fixed itself. Sometimes you have to do it 3 or 4.. It could just be the new phone i got then. Have to keep an eye out and take it in if it starts acting up. I was just wondering if it is just me, or if others have seen the same thing.

socos25 said:
Its not about natural looking colors. Every once in awhile I will hit the power button the lock scfeen will come up and you can tell the display just looks a little off. If you hit the power button again, turn it off, then turn it back on again often times it has fixed itself. Sometimes you have to do it 3 or 4.. It could just be the new phone i got then. Have to keep an eye out and take it in if it starts acting up. I was just wondering if it is just me, or if others have seen the same thing.
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I did see this on my phone before my touchscreen crapped out. I hope you aren't in the same boat since your phone is new.
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Bottom Buttons Don't Light On

Hey guys the Home, Menu, Back, and Search capacitive buttons on the bottom of the phone don't turn on at all. I cover the sensor on the front and nothing.
I have replace the front screen cause it crack and there was 4 little clear plastic things behind the buttons and I threw them away not knowing if I needed them or not, but I don't remember if the screen was giving that problem even before, anyway to check or fix this?

This may or may not help but some kernals will disable the button lights, I didn't like not having them lit up even if it helps with battery life.

Well I set up my friends Evo the exact same way as I set up mine and his lights are working.

another dumb question, but did you flash that SoL kernel? That kernel disables the lights on the buttons.
i did see your sig, but sometimes people don't update that.

is there a way to make it so the lights stay on when the screen is on?

it was the 4 little fingered thing that you threw away, they carry the light up from the board. only by replacing them will you get your lights back.

Well found one gotta keep searching for the others LOL wish me luck.

popper668 said:
it was the 4 little fingered thing that you threw away, they carry the light up from the board. only by replacing them will you get your lights back.
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Ugh only found 2, does anyone know where I might be able to buy that part somewhere online?