I have been having issues for the past month or so with my rooted Evo. It has been working fine forever and all of a sudden it doesn't react very well to touch controls.
Sometimes it will react to scroll motion and sometimes it doesn't. Also having issue with the actual buttons at the bottom of screen.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
Btw, I tried running both the latest OTA rooted version and also the new Energy Rom and nothing, same behavior on both ROMs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Should be posted in the Q&A section but have you tried doing a complete wipe? 3x wipe on everything except SD? Perhaps it's a kernel issue.
I have been having the same issues I just take the battery out but yeah the phone been acting funky recently
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Thanks nolimit, I'll make sure to do that in the future.
I already tried doing factory wipe and dalvik cache wipe via recovery twice, with no success.
How would I go about doing a complete wipe?
Is it all the time, it just when plugged in to charger?
sent using a freaking pigeon, with a note tied to its leg.
Crime, it happens all the time, but is worsened when plugged in.
Has your phone had any water damage, moisture, or anything like that ?
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No water damage. Im always very careful with that.
Sounds like dying hardware to me. I'd unroot and RMA it, myself.
See if the sprint repair store can run a diagnostic on it
Alright, thanks guys. Ill try and unroot and then see what happens with the phone after that.
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It only happens when I use any ROM based off the .47 OTA and now the newer froyo 2.2 versions that have been released. I realize they are not final but a final version is obviously not going to fix my problem.
I feel I am probably a very small number of people with this issue. If I run any other ROM I don't have the issue but obviously there is something either with my phone or in the kernel or something effecting my phone.
What do I mean by ghost screen touch? Randomly using the phone it will register touches at the top of my screen. Bad enough to make the screen unusuable and I have to turn the screen off and on multiple times till it goes away.
If it is happening in my app tray it will always select the first top left icon on my screen.
This is on a completely stock ROM without me adding any software or anything. I also have no screen protectors etc. I have eliminated everything I can.
The only thing I can think of is I know before the .47 OTA some people complained about a grounding issue. I never had that problem personally but whatever they changed I think may be causing this because any ROM before that is fine.
This also does happen to me more when the phone is plugged into the charger.
thanks for reading.
I have gotten it when I'm charging, to the extent I have to disconnect my phone to use it without the screen going crazy.
Have you tried running dotty to see if anything is registering?
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Have you tried running dotty to see if anything is registering?
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Installed dotty and nothing was showing. decided to touch it and when i stopped touching it 3 points were still showing as registered(i can max at 5 points) they are still showing as i look at the phone now not evening touching it. now they are flashing as if i was touching them both!
update..it seems like its normal for there to be points after you stop touching the screen in dotty i dunno..however when my screen does start going crazy in dotty it will show two touches parallel to each other on the top left corner just down a bit. it will actually flash between the two as if i was cycling my fingers back and forth.
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It only happens when I use any ROM based off the .47 OTA and now the newer froyo 2.2 versions that have been released. I realize they are not final but a final version is obviously not going to fix my problem.
I feel I am probably a very small number of people with this issue. If I run any other ROM I don't have the issue but obviously there is something either with my phone or in the kernel or something effecting my phone.
What do I mean by ghost screen touch? Randomly using the phone it will register touches at the top of my screen. Bad enough to make the screen unusuable and I have to turn the screen off and on multiple times till it goes away.
If it is happening in my app tray it will always select the first top left icon on my screen.
This is on a completely stock ROM without me adding any software or anything. I also have no screen protectors etc. I have eliminated everything I can.
The only thing I can think of is I know before the .47 OTA some people complained about a grounding issue. I never had that problem personally but whatever they changed I think may be causing this because any ROM before that is fine.
This also does happen to me more when the phone is plugged into the charger.
thanks for reading.
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the only time I saw something like this on my phone, the screen shaking, icons moving, like delayed touches, vibrating movements, ghost screen touches, etc. etc. and unresponsive, was when I ate a "Subway" sandwich, I had mayonnaise on my fingers, and I tried to use the phone, it looked like it was experiencing a seizure. I really worried that day. I even though of pulling the battery. It went away when I wiped the screen....
I can confirm the odd touch behavior while charging.
This may be unrelated but I recall seeing a post saying the HTC Music widget was causing scroll lag and touch issues on the new OTA over in the dev forum.
So does that mean you ruled out the fps hack?
I woudlnt worry much.. been getting this every once in a blue moon since the first OTA (while charged to PC.. not the wall)
I also have this issue, but its rare when it happens... I've seen this exact issue with my old pre as well...
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the only time I saw something like this on my phone, the screen shaking, icons moving, like delayed touches, vibrating movements, ghost screen touches, etc. etc. and unresponsive, was when I ate a "Subway" sandwich, I had mayonnaise on my fingers, and I tried to use the phone, it looked like it was experiencing a seizure. I really worried that day. I even though of pulling the battery. It went away when I wiped the screen....
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Seriously? So you're what 12 then?
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So does that mean you ruled out the fps hack?
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Correct..I am not sure what has changed since the .47 OTA but from there on up the issue is there even stock.
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I woudlnt worry much.. been getting this every once in a blue moon since the first OTA (while charged to PC.. not the wall)
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I'd love to not worry about it but it happens to me without it being plugged in also. Often enough to be very annoying.
You should take your phone back.
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Are you using the stock htc USB cable? I know that certain cheap (i.e. Monoprice) chargers/cables cause people's screens to become unresponsive and just basically act weird. Though it doesn't explain why it is only doing this with Froyo. Okay nevermind, just throwing some ideas out there. =)
My screen is less responsive to touch when charging via A/C adapter sometimes. Probably a grounding issue. Doesnt bother me.
I am also having this issue, except it happens w/o it being plugged in and it is happening to the point that my phone is completely un-usable. I bought it on launch day, I am trying to get back to stock 2.2 using the OTA and take it into sprint and play dumb I dont know what to do at this point.
Update: I was able to roll back to 1.32.651.1 (initial release) and I did not have any "ghost input" issues at all, loaded up dotty (which interestingly only let me use *2* multi-touch inputs at a time, if I put three fingers down the 3rd wouldn't show) played with it for 10 minutes. Usually I encounter these symptoms within a minute or two. Then I started updating, It loaded that very small update 1.32.651.6 i think, again no problems at all. Next up was 1.47.651.1. This update is the one that is causing the problem for me. Within 45 seconds of getting into the OS after 1.47 I started encountering the issue and Dotty is showing the same symptoms that MrDSL is having (two dots flashing in the top left handish corner). For ****s I then installed the official 2.2, in hopes that it would resolve the issue, but I still have the same problems. So, at this point I can either run pre 1.47 which really isn't an options for me, or deal with the ghost input issue which also really isn't an option for me, it literally drives me insane and I can't even use my phone as it just does it's own thing, or take it back to sprint.
At this point since I purchased this phone on launch day from Radio Shack what should I do? I want to exchange it but I don't know if Sprint or Radio shack will take it back (we're coming up on two months since launch). I should not have to use Insurance for something that is their problem. Suggestions?
Anyone else having this issue besides me and DSL ? DSL what have you done to remedy this or are you just living with the hell?
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Anyone else having this issue besides me and DSL ? DSL what have you done to remedy this or are you just living with the hell?
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Since the offical 2.2 has come out I emailed Sprint to let them know and they created a ticket for me and told me to bring it to the nearest Sprint store who has a tech on site.
I played dumb and said the issue started at the .47 OTA and that I was hoping the 2.2 OTA would fix it but instead it actually got worse. So when I need to go to the Sprint store I'll just flash the offical 2.2 OTA.
I really don't have much of a choice other then that unfortunately
Do you have a screen cover?
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I do not have a screen cover. Even if i did and it was causing the issue it would happen on pre 1.47...
No screen cover! Nothing!
This is even without adding any software..Completely stock!!
Yep, got the same thing here. It's some of the most annoying stuff in the world. I'll be typing on the keyboard, and it'll give me a triple-tap, then it'll flip down the notification panel, and it just does strange stuff. And then it'll be fine for the rest of the day. And then, it'll do it again. It's such a pain. I figured it was the FPS hack, since it runs everything at 110Hz or something, but then I noticed, like you guys, that it happens on stock as well. Pretty much a total pain.
About 6 times a day, the capacitive button on my phone will randomly get pressed by the phone. I'll be holding the phone, and the phone will go crazy. There is no rhyme or reason why it occurs; it just happens. other times, it will just vibrate, and menu items will open and close. I can also feel all the haptic feedback when this is happening.
Sometimes it ends calls, sometimes pushes the menu button like crazy, and eventually locks the phone up for 5 seconds. I can remedy the situation by turning off the screen.
I took the phone in, but was unable to replicate the issue for the rep to see. He tried for 10 minutes and gave up. I wanted to let him know I wasn't just making up stuff, so I tried in store for 75 minutes. (Just so you know, its not related to too many running apps. I have already tested this) He then told me on my way out to brick my phone so sprint would be forced to repair it, which I do not want to have to do.
So I called up tech support. and whats typical of Sprint is to find everything else to assign to blame so they can just call it a day and not have to do anything. The newest blame is being put on the Network Vision upgrade since I live in Chicago. I have 6 lines on my family plan, and none of the other 5 phones are having any issues. Now tech support is telling me to go back to the store. The phone is driving me crazy now. I've reset and reflashed the phone to stock EL29 numerous times and the issue wont go away. I've also deleted everything on the internal SD card. I've reset via ##786# too. The phone is just plain screwed up.
I have TEP. What should I do at this point? Is anyone here a tech?
Thanks.
I'm not a tech and not trying to be smart, but have you tried flashing non-stock EL29 based roms, like Calkulin's or Blazer's? I would try other roms Gingerbread or ICS, just to rule out any software issues.
yes. i used to be on Calkulin's when this started happening (about a month ago), so i went back to stock, and the problem persisted.
So you're saying this didn't happen before flashing Calkulin's rom? I would keep trying other non stock roms (even ICS roms) to make sure. To install ICS roms, you need to flash EL26 CWM5 kernel (Gingerbread), then the rom. Also flash Calkulin's format all.zip (you may have already done this), because it wipes data, cache, as well as system partition. Factory data reset does not wipe system partition, I believe (I might be wrong)
Happened to my old E4GT. Menu button kept pressing itself but then it got bricked and replaced ;p
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make sure your screen is clean.
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Had something similar happen with my first Pre years ago. I'd get woke up in the middle of the night by my phone performing weird activities and then awoke one morning to find it stuck in airplane mode and unwilling to be coaxed out of it.
Took it to the local store (was a corporate store at the time) guy was super nice and swapped it out without any hassle. Man do I miss that store. :-(
I have the same issue with my phone. I thought at first it was some sort of corruption on my blazer Rom, so I flashed multiple other roms with the same outcome. I haven't tried taking it to a store yet, but if this problem gets any worse, I might just have to use my tep for once.
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This was happening like crazy when I was on the latest Calkulin ROM. I switched to CM9 and it was still happening. Menu kept popping up, phone would randomly reboot and sometimes the screen would just go black without shutting the phone off and I could not wake it up without a manual reboot.
Today I used sfhubs One-Click for stick FD19 and haven't had any issues at all. So far my phones been rock solid for at least 12 hours, whereas before I would have seen these issues pop up several times within that time frame.
lets just hope it stays that way
I've heard this was happening in low signal areas. What was the signal like when it started?
Yup mine is doing this too. I bought this phone used on craigslist about two months ago and it started acting up about a week ago
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I am a lead tech at a corporate store fairly close to you (a few hours). If I find no evidence of corrosion or other liquid damage, I would be happy to order a replacement for you. Your disadvantage would be time to get here, and since seed stock is incredibly rare for this device, the trip would likely have to be made twice. PM me for further details.
This happens to me too on blazer 4.0 and blazer 4.1.... ITS very annoying
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Just got mine replaced and the brand new one is doing it stock. Usually when the battery gets below 30%.
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I've heard this was happening in low signal areas. What was the signal like when it started?
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You beat me to the post. It still happens on ICS in low signal areas..on 3g and 4g. It must be a flaw. I have tried it in known dead spots on about every ROM since launch. As soon as you get on the edge of a dead or very low signal spot, a random vibration then menu Popup or recent tasks on ICS.. its frustrating
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i am not in a low signal area at all, and I have tested this theory
My phone did this once a few weeks ago. It was only the menu button and I was on the main home screen so it kept popping up the menu options. Shut it down and restarted and it hasn't happened since.
I have the EXACT same problem! I have concluded that it only happens in low signal areas, and it only affects some phones. Its EXTREMELY ANNOYING! I mite get mine replaced, being that my sprint store is very reasonable. What I do is put the phone in airplane mode when I'm on wifi and use Google voice for texting. This fixes the problem immidiately but only works until you turn off airplane mode. Let me know if that works.
I'm pretty sure this is a Samsung phone issue in general. It happens in low signal areas. My E4GT does it occasionally, and my fascinate used to do it as well.
Though, I will say the e4gt is not nearly as bad as the fascinate was. If you were in a low signal area with that phone, it was literally unusable because it would back out of everything you tried to do, or the settings menu would keep popping up and closing.
I've had the menu button pop up on the e4gt and a few phantom key presses in low signal areas, but nothing near what I experienced on the fascinate.
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Recently had a Galaxy S2 do something strange and I wanted to see if you guys can decipher what really happened because I have no idea what caused this to happen.
Let's start off with some other info....I was running:
CWM Touch Recovery 6.0.1.8
Cyanogenmod10 Nightly 111212
I simply turned it off once the battery was getting low and charged it, once it was done I turned it on and it made it to the lock screen and then restarted. It would continue do that indefinitely until I removed the battery. So I thought maybe something went wacky and got corrupted so I went back to stock....When Odin restarted it I made it to the Android Welcome screen and it restarted again just like before. So then I got really desperate and did a factory reset and erased all my personal data along with a different stock rom...ICS stock. Nope, it STILL restarts.
Additionally, T-Mobile is replacing said device for a new SGS2, but now I'm afraid to root it. Which is why I want to figure out what happened to it. I'm starting to have suspicions about my extended battery I bought because when this restarting issue began, I've been using them for a little over a week and I haven't done any cyanogenmod updates or flashes recently.
on another note, if I do decide to root again, which Recovery should I use? Preferably one that doesn't require me to use Darkside Superwipe or cache scripts. I'd prefer a Recovery that can do it without scripts. And if you could provide the link, that would be great. I don't care if it's touch or not.
I have been using TWRP for awhile now. Supposedly the built in Wipes are very effective. I like the look and aesthetics of it. I don't think the issue you experienced had anything to do with rooting and romming. I think you may have had a legitimate phone issue. Don't be afraid, just be prepared with backups and knowledge and such.
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I have been using TWRP for awhile now. Supposedly the built in Wipes are very effective. I like the look and aesthetics of it. I don't think the issue you experienced had anything to do with rooting and romming. I think you may have had a legitimate phone issue. Don't be afraid, just be prepared with backups and knowledge and such.
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Thanks for your input, As a precaution, do you think I should stop using the unofficial extended batteries? Because this started about 2 weeks after using them.
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Thanks for your input, As a precaution, do you think I should stop using the unofficial extended batteries? Because this started about 2 weeks after using them.
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I would go a while without using it and see if the issue persist. If it does then you'll have your answer. Either way.
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Sounds like your phone's power button is messed. You can try using a small flathead screwdriver and put it into the sides of the power button and rock it around a little bit. If that doesnt work i guess youre going to have to take it to a repair shop or if you have warranty just bring it back.
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Hey there,
I have been having some issues with my LGOG over the past month or so and I have just started to look into possible solutions.
I first noticed that screen rotation and proximity sensing seemed to be non-functional. I always had problems with screen rotation, but it basically stopped completely after I rooted/unlocked (using manuals on XDA and FreeGee app). I was stuck on ZV8 (couldn't upgrade because root) and figured that an updated ROM would solve my problem.
I have now updated to Lifeless v11 ROM and have found nearly every sensor (including light, sound, proximity, gyro, etc) to be non-responsive. I then thought this must be a kernel problem, so I tried flashing Joker's test kernel (from Aroma) and his Stockish 2.1.1 kernel. No dice. Additionally, I tried to do a sensor calibration and was given the message "Calibration failed. Try again".
I realize there is a possibility that this could be a hardware issue, but is there any other possibility I have overlooked? I have isolated some error messages in logcat, if that would help at all.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Seems like a defective phone. You should return under warranty.
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Seems like a defective phone. You should return under warranty.
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Awesome, will do. Do you know if they will give me trouble for having messed around with things? I suppose I could always just restore my old backup I made with the stock ROM and re-lock the bootloader and unroot.
Do you think I need to go through that? Not that it's the end of the world.
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Awesome, will do. Do you know if they will give me trouble for having messed around with things? I suppose I could always just restore my old backup I made with the stock ROM and re-lock the bootloader and unroot.
Do you think I need to go through that? Not that it's the end of the world.
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Honestly I would just in case. Ya know? They could say you messed it up with whatever you did and whatnot.
Just for kicks and giggles.. What ROM are you on and what tweaks did you add?
Scratch that. Try reflashing the ROM after a system, cache, and dalvik cache whip. Very well could have been a bad flash. If that's not the case then clear, lock, and unroot.
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Honestly I would just in case. Ya know? They could say you messed it up with whatever you did and whatnot.
Just for kicks and giggles.. What ROM are you on and what tweaks did you add?
Scratch that. Try reflashing the ROM after a system, cache, and dalvik cache whip. Very well could have been a bad flash. If that's not the case then clear, lock, and unroot.
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Very cool, thanks for your great advice!
I was on Lifeless v.11. I tried your suggestion (wipe caches/system and reflash), but unfortunately no dice. I also tried rolling back to my stock backup and there is still no functionality. Seems like I have a broken unit. :/
I'm going to roll everything back as much as I can and cover my tracks so I can try and get a replacement this weekend. Hopefully they don't jerk me around too much in the process!
Thanks again, and have a good week(end).
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BTW, I had installed all the tweaks that were installed with Lifeless (quite a comprehensive list). I thought that might be the issue as well, but seeing as how my stock backup is still giving me issues, it looks like it's strictly a hardware issue...
If you have insurance through Sprint you honestly should not need to worry about them knowing you had the phone rooted or anything. They asked me if I rooted the first android phone I had, but said they didn't care, they just had problems with reflashing rooted/unlocked versions of the phone before so were being safe. Now it's to the point where I just tell them I broke it lol. I took my LGOG in yesterday after a failed update/flash back to stock at work. Told him exactly what I did, they ordered me a new phone (New, not a refurb cuz they were on backorder ). I was actually able to get it fixed, and even let them know, and they said they already ordered it so I'll have a new phone on Monday either way lol.
I try to flash back to stock still, just in case that one day they decide to change policies without me knowing. But if I'm in a hurry I don't worry about it.
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dont think you are gonna walk in and walk back out with a phone. the G is on backorder. I've been waiting on a replacement since the 16th and still nothing.
Just for future information:
I went into the Sprint Store this afternoon and found, just as others suggested, that they would need time to replace it. They kicker was that they told me that there was no way that I would get a new phone as a replacement. I could expect a refurbished model of unknown quality.
I finally found out that I could take up the issue with LG directly, so I opted to do so. They informed me that as long as there was no impact or water damage (which there isn't), they would do their best to either repair or replace the phone. The problem is that I have to pay to ship the phone to their Texas plant and then wait for up to a week while they repair the unit.
This isn't the best of circumstances, but I figure this might be the better solution. I will be taking photos before I send it to be sure that whatever I get back isn't a random refurb with cosmetic damage (mine is almost pristine).
I'll keep this thread posted with how everything goes.
Same problem
guyz i got the phone from my teacher..he told me that every time he try to factory reset error comes"boot secure error" and phone cant factory reset and also rotation sensor not working ..i flashed official v19G and after that evert single one sensor no working,literally every sensor in showing 0 value through exilar app..any solution which can solve this ..???
my phone model is F180K
That's not a sprint phone. Ls970 is Sprint model,
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Ok the meat of the problem is my vibration function quit. It happened after my battery dropped to around 10% yesterday. Though, even after a full charge its still not functional.
I've tried wiping the cache, reflashing InsertCoin Rom, restoring an old venom Rom, and updating from there. The best I can get is it now intermittently works.
Any other trouble shooting ideas?
It's happened to a bunch of people and appears to be a hardware problem. Some people have it randomly return to them. Mine works ... once a week maybe, but is otherwise permanently dead.
Nooooo!!! That sucks thanks for the info though. Guess I flash it to stock and see if I can warranty it.
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Nooooo!!! That sucks thanks for the info though. Guess I flash it to stock and see if I can warranty it.
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Let me know how that goes please. My phone's vibration died within 4 hours of purchase. It's an international version so I'm going to have to pay HTC for the warranty -_-
Yeah it really sucks. It just went out without warning. I never had an issue like this with any of my galaxy phones or my ancient HTC aria.