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Apps rotation will lag - why?

So this has been driving me nuts ever since froyo. I don't recall my phone ever doing this before 2.2
I use Handscent for sms and lets say I open it up and are going through messages while in landscape mode. Once I am done I will hit home and set the phone back down. Then when a message comes in I will pick up the phone and check it and it opens handscent back in up Landscape mode even though I am holding the phone upright. There is at least a second lag before the phone switches it back to the correct position.
This is not just with handscent but any other program that supports landscape. It's really annoying and I have hard reset more than once since froyo. The app remembers what position it was in rather than just dected the correct position in the first place. I have also tried calibrating but the phone knows what to rotate so the rotation works fine it's just the app likes to remember the last position it was in rather than the current. I don't recall this being a problem on 2.1
Is there a way to fix it? It's trying me nuts
I have a friend who also has an evo hardware build 2 (mine is 3) and that phone doesn't take nearly as long as mine. You can still see it remembers the position you of the screen when you go back in, but it flips back rather quickly where mine takes up to 4-5 seconds.
I have tried recalibrating the g-sensor numerous times. Also when I am just rotating the phone back and forth it rotates the screen very quickly, the only time it lags is when I back out of an ap and go back in later.

anyone have any ideas?

Anyone?
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Are you running a stock froyo kernel?I have hardware version 002 and am running Netarchy's 4.0.3 kernel over clocked to 1.15 ghz.I can see what you're talking about but my screen rotates to the correct position almost instantly.
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I am running everything stock, non-root and no over clocking - I might have to try hard resting again - not sure what else to do
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Running Fresh 3.1.0.2 with net's 4.1.8 and I get the same thing with certain apps. No idea why though.
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Well I thought I would post an update - I ended up doing a hard reset. The odd thing is I have hard reset twice since I got the froyo update. However the first 2 times (both times I had the problem with rotation lag) I reset using the settings under SD & phone storage.
When I reset last night I used the bootloader to reset it. The lag is now gone (you can still see it rotate but it's fast now where as before it would take up to 5 seconds to kick in only when going back into an app though)
So anyone else having this problem I would just hard reset using the key combination. I have not recalibrate the g-sensor. I am also keeping an eye on what I install to see if a certain app brings the lag back but so far everything I have installed it seems fine. Not sure what was stuck in the phone or what was going on, I never used a task killer or anything. It was driving me crazy since a lot of time I would back out of an app in landscape and go back in there portrait and it would lag.
So anyway I will report back if it comes back but hopefully it stays gone.

Sim-X said:
I am running everything stock, non-root and no over clocking - I might have to try hard resting again - not sure what else to do
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your g-sensor could be going bad. i had a remaned evo i was playing with for a few days that did this and the g-sensor eventually quit working.

t3project said:
your g-sensor could be going bad. i had a remaned evo i was playing with for a few days that did this and the g-sensor eventually quit working.
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It's working now and the only time I had a problem was going back in to an app I left in landscape otherwise it was fast and correct. I think it's a software problem.

Unlock with the trackpad?

Is there a mod out there that can be applied to the ota that let's us power on the screen with the trackpad? Reminds me of my old Eris.
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I'm pretty sure last time I checked that remapping the trackball was not possible
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It is possible. I do believe Chads kernel comes with it. That or CM7 has it. I can do it with my phone, at least. It doesn't always work on the first press, so you sometimes have to hold it down. I noticed when I'm charging it works first time, every time. Unsure why that is though.
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You can use Button Remapper from the market or google it. Also Sky Raiders, OVO, Synergy, CM7 and most roms that are not stock have the option for trackepad wale
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if you poke around in /system/usr/keylayout you can find two files "incrediblec-keypad.kl" and "qwerty.kl" these two handle the mapping of the keys so that android OS knows how to handle they key events.
I don't have the OTA so I haven't tested it but back in the day you would find the DPAD_CENTER line and change it from WAKE_DROPPED to WAKE.
I played a lot with these files because I really wanted a decicated CAMERA button and the OJ was perfect for me. Hope this helps and I wish I could test this before I started making suggestions to you. Good luck.

SteveG12543 said:
It is possible. I do believe Chads kernel comes with it. That or CM7 has it. I can do it with my phone, at least. It doesn't always work on the first press, so you sometimes have to hold it down. I noticed when I'm charging it works first time, every time. Unsure why that is though.
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As far as the why, it is because the phone screen is still "Awake" if I remember correctly. If you power your phone off then immediately press the optical button, your screen will come on but it won't if you wait say five seconds. I've noticed the same as what you stated occur in one of Nils' older gingersense roms.

SlimSnoopOS said:
As far as the why, it is because the phone screen is still "Awake" if I remember correctly. If you power your phone off then immediately press the optical button, your screen will come on but it won't if you wait say five seconds. I've noticed the same as what you stated occur in one of Nils' older gingersense roms.
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Huh, weird lol. Never noticed that myself. I usually don't lock then unlock lol. Quite interesting, though.
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[Q] screen is too dim!!

ok im having a very frustration problem ive tried a couple of roms to no anvil. so when i bot my evo its fine nice and bright . but the first time i hit the lock button and bring it back to awake the screen go's to the absolute darkest setting and the rightness setting is unresponsive.(meaning it just do anything it will let me adjust the slider but to no result.im trying to sell the phone this week so i am getting somewhat anxious about this problem any one experience this or have a fix?

Which roms? What recovery are you using? Any apps recently installed? Need some more info.
We're comin from a pure power source.

I'm using the mik Rom right now I was using an stock deoxed Rom befor I'm using the regular bootloader
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Questions about software buttons

So, in contemplating upgrading to this phone, but here's my concern: When full-screen apps like YouTube force close, or when I want to exit and stop watching the current video, what do I do?
Is there a way to hack the buttons so that they stay on the screen at ALL times, regardless of the app running such that the on screen buttons are essentially equivalent to hardware/capacitive buttons?
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Buttons r hidden when play YouTube video. When tap anywhere on the screen, all buttons reappear.
Actually, I would prefer all apps can auto hide the buttons to get full screen. Looks so much nicer...
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But what if the YouTube app hangs and the phone freezes? Is a battery pull the only way?
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i think the buttons would still show up (they are not part of the youtube app)

When playing videos, it will go to full screen and 1 tap of the screen will show the buttons. Most of the time the buttons will disappear and be replaced by 3 barley lite circles.
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Oh, I see. Thanks. And what I meant was that both the app and the phone freeze. Is there a way to force reboot when the phone totally hangs? Like, using some button combination like how it is possible on my current device?
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Just thinking out loud here. But if the app force closes on you, you can pick the force close button that pops up or it will just close itself and bring you back to your home screen. So no problems there really, and also I don't see why so many people are scared to pull the battery out of their phones? Is it just because of the hassle? Otherwise I see people saying they're scared of breaking the back cover?

Uhm, that's not what I mean. I mean the app totally hangs and the phone freezes too, not responding to touch input.
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Battery pull.
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even if u did have hardware buttons and the phone freezed ud still have to do a battery pull, ive witnessed it a few times when working with my droid eris..

Yeah, currently the only way to force a reboot is through pulling the battery. On my Galaxy S i9000 you could hold Power + Home and it would reboot even if the phone was totally frozen

MrBig0 said:
Yeah, currently the only way to force a reboot is through pulling the battery. On my Galaxy S i9000 you could hold Power + Home and it would reboot even if the phone was totally frozen
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same thing on my current phone. Doing battery pulls is a terrible pain if I have installed a protective casing.
@mrbig0 see what I quoted
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If your whole phone freezes (shouldn't) then of course you have to do a battery pull regardless of the ROM you're running or what buttons you have...
^My experience, reading above apparently some phones do so. Regardless, I use my phone 10 hours + daily and have never had the whole phone freeze.

To the OP, the phone never really freezes. Ive been with android since donut and this phone has been the most stable even with custom roms. I think I've only had one force close the whole month I've had the phone and it's never completely frozen on me. You dont have anything to worry about.

bigmike2424 said:
To the OP, the phone never really freezes. Ive been with android since donut and this phone has been the most stable even with custom roms. I think I've only had one force close the whole month I've had the phone and it's never completely frozen on me. You dont have anything to worry about.
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not unless im doing overclocking, hackery and the like.
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RMatt1992 said:
If your whole phone freezes (shouldn't) then of course you have to do a battery pull regardless of the ROM you're running or what buttons you have...
^My experience, reading above apparently some phones do so. Regardless, I use my phone 10 hours + daily and have never had the whole phone freeze.
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Not true. On my current phone, pressing a button combo will reboot the phone whether it's frozen or not. It's a hard reset.
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aloy99 said:
not unless im doing overclocking, hackery and the like.
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thats true, i never mess with set cpu or set speeds, but if that's the case then battery pulls might be necessary haha

I never have experienced it with the Samsung Galaxy nexus and I did crazy things.

Black screen of death!

So I fixed the problem kinda but my phone just tripped uber balls on me! The screen does this one thing every now and then where it wants to just go black while trying to receive a call. Whatever no biggie. That's where I was wrong. It seems to be happening a bit note frequently now. Well today I was watching TV and all of a sudden my options g wouldn't turn on. I mean I was pressing the volume rocker and I could feel the phone vibrate and such but the screen was straight BLACK! anyone ever get this before? If so what did you do for a fix. Oh PS I'm not rooted. My PC broke down and all I have now is my Mac and I don't how to root with a stupid Macbook pro.
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sirswag87 said:
So I fixed the problem kinda but my phone just tripped uber balls on me! The screen does this one thing every now and then where it wants to just go black while trying to receive a call. Whatever no biggie. That's where I was wrong. It seems to be happening a bit note frequently now. Well today I was watching TV and all of a sudden my options g wouldn't turn on. I mean I was pressing the volume rocker and I could feel the phone vibrate and such but the screen was straight BLACK! anyone ever get this before? If so what did you do for a fix. Oh PS I'm not rooted. My PC broke down and all I have now is my Mac and I don't how to root with a stupid Macbook pro.
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This happened to me once when trying to use the navigation app. So Annoying! I'm not sure how I fixed it though.
On Vanilla RootBox rom.