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Has anyone noticed their phone likes to turn itself on during phone calls as the phone touches your head?
I thought that could be fixed with Advanced Configuration Tool and these options:
◦Phone sleep during call
◦Fast sleep during call
But they both are gone. They were there on my Kaiser. Any ideas?
It's supposed to turn off due to the proximity sensor. I'm using a T-Mobile USA TP2 and it turns off as it touches my ear. One way you can test this, if you haven't already, is to call a phone, then as it is in progress, lay the phone with the screen up, and put your finger across the top of the facade of the phone (cover the top area where the earpiece is). When I do that, in order to replicate my ear towards the phone, the proximity sensor blanks the screen.
As for the AC tool settings you mentioned, I've never touched those, so mine are on the default settings.
Hey, wow! You're right! When the device is against my ear, the display is out. As soon as I pull it away, even slightly, it turns it on!
I'm simple, I know. My wife tells me that all the time.
motocrossmann said:
Hey, wow! You're right! When the device is against my ear, the display is out. As soon as I pull it away, even slightly, it turns it on!
I'm simple, I know. My wife tells me that all the time.
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It's okay, when I first got my TP2, I encountered the same thing you thought was a problem. Then I saw a video online demonstrating proximity sensors and the guy on the video put his finger along the top/speaker area of the device and the screen turned off. I replicated his actions on my TP2 and realized that the proximity sensor activates when something is touching it or gets fairly close to it. BTW, we're all simple; we just excel in different ways!
LOL, me and the wife learning this stuff too. Hey, heres another (which i just created a post for), GO rub a magnet on the face of the phone while the screen is OFF, right over the tiny keypad. If you have a soft case with magnet in the flat, go see the funky result
carhigh said:
LOL, me and the wife learning this stuff too. Hey, heres another (which i just created a post for), GO rub a magnet on the face of the phone while the screen is OFF, right over the tiny keypad. If you have a soft case with magnet in the flat, go see the funky result
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Well since I'm already here and I don't want to search for that post (sorry to the Mods since this is irrelevant for this thread), I can answer that too. It's already a well-known issue. The magnet tricks the phone into thinking either the keyboard and/or the stylus is being opened/taken out. However, it is more accepted that the phone is being tricked into the keyboard being opened. There's a registry edit posted on these forums that can fix that, but the downside is if you want the screen to turn on when the keyboard opens, it will no longer turn on without having to press the screen wake-up button.
I'm just using the Slide2Unlock v.204 for WVGA devices. It keeps the phone locked even if the screen turns on. When I slide my phone into my magnet-clasped holster, it sometimes turns on. It's just a habit for me now to check the screen once it's in the holster, so I can turn the screen off if it woke up by itself.
Well just like on the Vibrant if u swipe across the top of the screen left to right you can control the brightness. For some reason when swiping from left to right to turn brightness to max, it makes my screen go black like it has been locked and i have to press the power button to wake the phone back up. Has anyone else noticed this??? I doubt its supposed to do this....
I didn't notice this, don't think it happens on my phone
Seems like i may have another reason besides the lines in my screen to do an exchange.
I have the glitch too
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^^good to know im not alone. Its weird man, Its super convenient to be able to use it, but not if it locks the phone each time i want to brighten my screen.
I can duplicate this when viewing a pdf but not from the home screen.
mziol said:
I didn't notice this, don't think it happens on my phone
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Works fine for me. I did it as soon as I read the op haha
Edit: Although, if I go too fast, I can replicate the black screen.
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I have the glitch too. I read that AT&T and Samsung were already pushing out updates to their SGS2 to fix "annoyances"..hopefully they will push updates to our phones soon as well.
I_am_Error said:
Works fine for me. I did it as soon as I read the op haha
Edit: Although, if I go too fast, I can replicate the black screen.
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lol yea samething happens to me, i have to go slow or not all the way to the edge of the phone.
Same... Goin to fast or hitting the right edge corner makes the screen go black...
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ok i purposely did this in a room with all the lights off and the screen actually doesnt turn off, instead it turns dark gray and u can see what appears to be "burn in" maybe? The square line around my Clock widget ,the line across the row of icons at the bottom and also notification bar line are all easily visible. This isnt good at all... Please someone try to replicate this in a completely dark room to see if the results are the same.
Will do later today.
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Anyone notice that the screen doesn't rotate between portrait/lanscape correctly, sometimes it won't at all, if the phone is perpendicular to the ground?
If I tilt the phone closer to the ground, it picks up the orientation correctly (~2 second delay).
Anyone else know what i'm talking about?
wonshikee said:
Anyone notice that the screen doesn't rotate between portrait/lanscape correctly, sometimes it won't at all, if the phone is perpendicular to the ground?
If I tilt the phone closer to the ground, it picks up the orientation correctly (~2 second delay).
Anyone else know what i'm talking about?
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If by the phone being perpendicular to the ground you mean parallel to the ground (e.g. screen facing directly up) this sort of behavior is what I'd expect. Because how is the phone supposed to know how you're holding it if it's oriented like it's sitting flat on a table (roughly speaking)?
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If by the phone being perpendicular to the ground you mean parallel to the ground (e.g. screen facing directly up) this sort of behavior is what I'd expect. Because how is the phone supposed to know how you're holding it if it's oriented like it's sitting flat on a table (roughly speaking)?
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Exactly. If you were holding it perpendicularly then it would rotate no problem, theoretically.
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If by the phone being perpendicular to the ground you mean parallel to the ground (e.g. screen facing directly up) this sort of behavior is what I'd expect. Because how is the phone supposed to know how you're holding it if it's oriented like it's sitting flat on a table (roughly speaking)?
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No no, the phone's screen is parallel to the wall, then if I rotate it 90 degrees, the phone won't rotate the screen, then if I tilt the screen towards the ceiling/floor, the phone picks up and rotates properly.
It seems the OS update I just installed has fixed this behavior.
just like in honeycomb Google added a second or so delay so the phone isn't rotating when you don't want it to.
Although this can be frustrating when you do want it to rotate.
There is and will be more custom roms that remove this delay
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yeah i really like it this way i always used to accidently rotate the screen and it irritated me to no end i like that its now more 'deliberate' if you want it to rotate, but i guess its personal preference.
personally the video player should always default to landscape imo usually id keep rotate off but then video player is in landscape :\ least now i can leave rotate on and not be annoyed by it
Hey guys. I love my epic and appreciate the site and forums. I switched from a old winmo 6.5 htc kjam to epic 4g and everything is greato far except for 1 issue. I have these these weird dead spots where if i was to use swype, i cant complete a word that required a lot of movements to characters closeer to the edges. Its kinda unusable because once i try to slide from say a letter Z to P somehow before it reaches P. I also have issues with different apps where im unable to click a button unless i switch from landscape to portrait and vice versa mostly buttons on the edge. On cm9 i have the setting to show a little white circle when your finger is on the screen and it looks like that white circle is not able to show up precisely where im pushing. This happens mostly on the edges and affects landscape swyping and both view modes when pushiong buttons to browser links. Kind of annoying so i been using voice typing or the keyboard as i need to use ssh a lot. Could there be a hardware issue with my screen like some sensor? I dont know the anatomy of an epic 4g but i know its never been dropped. Its not a huge deal but i would like to know if this is a common problem. I think but maybe its placebo but can it be cm9 because i do recall flashing the temp el30 rom to calibrate my screen when i noticed this problem. Calibration doesnt seem to help.
So I never really noticed this until I used my girlfriend's 4s, but my camera seems real slow. When I tap the shutter button, sometimes it literally takes 3 seconds to snap the picture (auto focus on). If I hold down the shutter button and then release when I want to take the picture, the shutter animation shows immediately but if I move the phone right after the animation then the final picture gets all fuzzy even if the one frozen at the animation is clear.
Is this normal and I'm being nitpicky or could I have a hardware issue? It was exactly like this since the day I got it (on stock and on all rooms).
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GodspeedFx said:
So I never really noticed this until I used my girlfriend's 4s, but my camera seems real slow. When I tap the shutter button, sometimes it literally takes 3 seconds to snap the picture (auto focus on). If I hold down the shutter button and then release when I want to take the picture, the shutter animation shows immediately but if I move the phone right after the animation then the final picture gets all fuzzy even if the one frozen at the animation is clear.
Is this normal and I'm being nitpicky or could I have a hardware issue? It was exactly like this since the day I got it (on stock and on all rooms).
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It takes mine about 3 seconds per picture also so it is not just your phone. I am using CM10/Jellybean (nightly 9/24) but I think it also took that long with GB and ICS. So it is normal for this phone. I still think it is a better phone than the Iphone 4s anyway.
Thanks for the confirmation It's a much better phone than the 4s, and even the 5 in my opinion.. hah. I would never be able to switch to iOS after experiencing the freedom of Android!
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