Does anyone notice this? I just started noticing this a few days ago at first it would only engage during a call now its on all the time and it seems to correspond to a recent faster battery drain
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What behavior does your phone exhibit?
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It's caused by an app you have installed. I had an issue with this too. The app causing it for me was lux which is an auto screen brightness app.
Good luck finding it.
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Dang i do not have an app like that just apps like voxer and games lol
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If your brightness is on auto it will always stay on too, the proximity and light sensor are in the same chip right next to the FFC
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I thought that and i have since turned it off and rebooted still on
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donsh00tmesanta said:
I thought that and i have since turned it off and rebooted still on
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Do you have any of the flip to mute or proximity to speaker or pocket mode options enabled? I'm not familiar with the rom you're using so I'm not even sure those options are there but they can keep the prox/light sensor awake for them to work
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none of those
Hi,
Just searched through another website while I'm facing this issue, do you have viber installed? If so, just launch your viber and exit the application and the proximity sensor will goes off. This works for me.
Please try.
Cheers
yongchoon said:
Hi,
Just searched through another website while I'm facing this issue, do you have viber installed? If so, just launch your viber and exit the application and the proximity sensor will goes off. This works for me.
Please try.
Cheers
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This is for correct. Viber is the culprit. Thanks for letting us know. My battery drained 60% overnight last night. I was shocked, coz usually iit's only about 15%.
However just killing the Viber app did not work for me. Doing that would switch off the proximity sensor momentarily, and as soon as the app is restarted, the sensor would come on as well. Hope Viber are already aware of this issue and fix it soon. In the meantime, I've switched off Viber thru its Setting menu. Seems to have done the trick.
Viber...
Hello!
Thank you for resolved issue! Same thing here.
Viber become pretty messy! Since two or three updates ago it will not sync to my phone book, neither I can see it as account among the other accounts in my phone. 3-4 months ago everything was fine. Viber is going downhill...
Thanks a lot! This drove me crazy!
viber
thx a lot it was driving me crazy too
This worked for me too. I think its a new version of Viber, in older versions there was no problem.
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I woke up this morning and could not get the display to change. I normally have auto rotate on but nothing happenes when i turn the phone. The only way i can get the display to change back is to uncheck auto rotate. Iv tried pretty much everything except a factory reset which id rather not. I have insurance but this is a pretty minor claim. Anyone that could help id love to hear from you.
Thanks.
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It sounds like the accelerometer might have failed. There's a calibration tool built in that you can run to see if it's responsive there. It shows two bubble level indicators. There are also apps that have similar display information. If they don't move when you move the phone around, then accelerometer may have died and you need to exchange.
have you tried the htc auto rotate widget?
Yep, thats what i thought. The sensor isnt picking up anything using both the stock app and a third party one. Im on my way to Verizon right now. Good thing i have insurance
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Just an update on all of this, just returned from Verizon store after a nice birthday dinner, i started talking to a rep who didn't know what a g-sensor or anything else for that matter was. After explaining in extremely simple detail what its function was the man said that i was wrong and that my phone infact didnt have one of those sensors. I immediately requested to see a manager. This manager also happened to own a Droid incredible 2.. this is the best part, he said this was a brand new phone
With SENSE 3.0! After that i just walked out of the store. So ill be calling a service department im the morning. You would think if you work at the store you would know what parts of the phone are. Sorry for the wall of text. Hopefully this gets sorted out.
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There is a device called a accelerometer and there is a device called a gyroscope. The I2 has an accelerometer, but not a gyroscope. I would be careful calling it a g-sensor as, yes, it can measure g-forces, but some may assume you are referring to a gyroscope.
Well I used both terms in the store to avoid confusion, but it's fine my replacement came this morning and everything works just fine.
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hello, at times my proximity sensor glows red and it never goes down. when this happens i felt the screen heating up and battery draining to 0 pretty fast, any suggestions or solution to it?
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If you downloaded the latest Viber update then that is the problem. Lots of people complaining of it, I had to uninstall Viber for the same reason.
Hope they fix it soon.
Same issue here.
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Viber latest update is doing that. Removing it fixed the problem for me.
You can simply "Exit" Viber & the sensor will go back to normal until Viber starts again.
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You can simply "Exit" Viber & the sensor will go back to normal until Viber starts again.
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True, it doesn't not go off after viber runs, even after... for me it dd not work even after exiting viber...
Thats strange, I have seen this problem in my HOX, and in an another HOX and a SG3. In all 3, the sensor would immediately stop glowing once I hit Exit in Viber.
Thats right it works for me! Thanx a lot.
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There is an update now for Viper that fixes the issue. Tried it and it works.
Thank u so much. Was trying to figure it out for ages!
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I installed the kernel that supports BLN then I installed lite Rom version 5. Now I downloaded the BLN from the market and it said my Rom supports it. Unfortunately when I get an email the button lights don't go on when the phone is sleep. Same with Facebook notifications but it did work with Google talk. Someone sent me a message and it lit up quite nicely and stayed on till I woke up the phone. Anyone else experiencing this? I looked in Facebook and made sure on the app that I have light notification enabled but that did not help. I could not see any options from the email. I use the built in email from android not the Google one, the white one with the blue @ sign is the one I use. Am I not enabling something? Please help I would love this to work properly.
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I second this. BLN works, but not consistently. I can't quite put my finger on why the performance varies. It works during sleep, but not always. It works while it's awake, but the screen is off, but also not always.
The only thing I may have found is that BLN works less often when I have the app triggering the notification open/active. So, when I'm in a chat and I put down my phone after a message, the screen will go off after 15 seconds. The other party may have replied within 20 seconds, but it does not always trigger BLN.
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I wish it would just trigger on everything in the notification section. Unfortunately kind of useless if it is only sometimes getting triggered. What good is a notification light that does not work? Sorry, I know how hard some people have worked hard on this and I am not trying to upset anyone, just stating that it is not there yet to be reliable and fully functional.
I had the same issue previously on older versions of the lite kernel. I ended up flashing the kernel twice in a row and it seemed to fix the issue. I haven't seen issues since. Maybe upgrade to the most current lite kernel?
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I couldn't get BLN Control to work with Handcent SMS so I downloaded Light Flow Lite, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite.
So far it has worked great and I haven't seen any of these intermittent issues. Maybe it will help one of you guys.
Every first time (locking phone to redo it also happens) that I put in my pattern unlock, it always stop by itself before I'm done putting in the pattern. I am rooted but i'm not using a custom rom.
This could be a tmobile problem but my friend and an ex said they text me a couple of times before but I never received any text messages. I'm using the stock messaging app. This happened yesterday and I still never seen the texts. This is probably happening with sent texts but I'm not sure. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia if anyone else is having similar problems in the area.
I also have a calling problem where I'd call someone sometimes and it says they pick up but they really didn't and I don't hear anything. I think it's a problem with wifi being on but this also happened on my old side kick phone '08 model before i upgraded to this phone which doesn't have wifi.
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I just exchanged my phone yesterday and it's still having the same problems.
Bump again.. I reset my phone and the problems (mainly the pattern and unsure of other problems) eventually comes back.
No one is having this problem? Can anyone even try to reproduce the problem So I know that my tmobile place doesn't have a bunch of defects. I mean if I wait a Second or two before entering the pattern then it would work.
I also notice that there is maybe a screen/touch issue at the bottom right corner of the phone. I could see the issue with multi touch vis test in the play store.
I sometime have a problem with air view writing by itself and having the s note freeze up.
Wait till the lakers game is done homie!
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I also noticed a problem with calls not being able to be picked up. I'll have to constantly slide the accept button before it answers.
I think there's also a problem with calls being dropped on wifi.
Airview sometimes draw by itself.
Bump again.. there's also a problem where screen is timing out too quickly. Even when I changed it to 30 seconds, it still times out at 15.
The battery also dies pretty quickly with occasional texting using the stock app. It goes from 100% at 8am to 68% by 2pm. People also have a problem hearing me when they call me or I call them and I'm on speaker phone. Even when I put my mouth closer to the mic they still can't hear me
Sounds like a wifi calling issue, it really doesn't work well for me, even on my old HTC Sensation I experienced the same exact thing. Wifi calling is enabled by default check in your settings menu and disabe it. As far asyour battery issues are concerned it sounds like there is something running in the backround draining your battery. Check to see if your phone is sleeping when it should be. Check all of your settings because it sounds like something is draining your battery. If you try all of this and still have a problem, go exchange it, perhaps you have a faulty unit. I hope this helps. The only time I have had the issues with calls as you've described it was because of wifi calling..
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Sounds like a wifi calling issue, it really doesn't work well for me, even on my old HTC Sensation I experienced the same exact thing. Wifi calling is enabled by default check in your settings menu and disabe it. As far asyour battery issues are concerned it sounds like there is something running in the backround draining your battery. Check to see if your phone is sleeping when it should be. Check all of your settings because it sounds like something is draining your battery. If you try all of this and still have a problem, go exchange it, perhaps you have a faulty unit. I hope this helps. The only time I have had the issues with calls as you've described it was because of wifi calling..
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Well I turned off wifi and it all sometimes happen. It used to have the same issues on my other note 2, mentioned in the above posts. All the old problems still exist on this exchanged one.
Did you have any of the same issues above?
chaoz102 said:
Well I turned off wifi and it all sometimes happen. It used to have the same issues on my other note 2, mentioned in the above posts. All the old problems still exist on this exchanged one.
Did you have any of the same issues above?
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I don't use pattern unlock so I cannot confirm that issue. Battery life for me is outstanding, I did have an issue with it on the first day of use but it was an app causing it to be awake constantly. I uninstalled the app and my battery life is incredible 6+ hours of screen and calls and it still lasts forever. I am not aware of any missed texts. Wifi calling is just awful so I don't use it and I have no problem making or receiving calls and texts even when I have a week signal. Compared yo my Sensation this is a huge upgrade and I am not having any issues.
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advice one click odin back to stock and then update everything and try it
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I don't use pattern unlock so I cannot confirm that issue. Battery life for me is outstanding, I did have an issue with it on the first day of use but it was an app causing it to be awake constantly. I uninstalled the app and my battery life is incredible 6+ hours of screen and calls and it still lasts forever. I am not aware of any missed texts. Wifi calling is just awful so I don't use it and I have no problem making or receiving calls and texts even when I have a week signal. Compared yo my Sensation this is a huge upgrade and I am not having any issues.
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Oh I see. Could you try out the pattern unlock to see if it's a big? What was the app? My phone seem to last longer if I play with it more lol.
mrej201 said:
advice one click odin back to stock and then update everything and try it
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Samsung has an update for this phone? Because most of the problems also appeared when I didn't root it.
chaoz102 said:
Oh I see. Could you try out the pattern unlock to see if it's a big? What was the app? My phone seem to last longer if I play with it more lol.
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Friendcaster was the app. Sure, I will enable pattern lock and see if I have the issue you're experiencing.
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Friendcaster was the app. Sure, I will enable pattern lock and see if I have the issue you're experiencing.
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Oh I don't have that app but thank you. Tell me how it goes.
Does anyone have a problem where you would constantly have to click the back button in the Web browser to make it go back?
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Friendcaster was the app. Sure, I will enable pattern lock and see if I have the issue you're experiencing.
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Was there any problems?
Bump again.. is nobody having any of the problems that I posted about?
Is anyone having a problem where the screen wouldn't time out when you put it next to your ear while you're on a phone call?
bump again..
I just got my phone exchanged through the mail and it's still having the same issues.
Also there are these weird markings/dots on the inside of my screen. Maybe it's a lcd bleed/screen issue. It appeared in my past couple of exchanged devices. It wouldn't go away and I usually see it more clearer when I'm using the phone at night or on certain websites/games/etc that has the right lighting for it.
Once again. Bump..
Bump again. Over 500 views and only like 4 replies.
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Bump again. Over 500 views and only like 4 replies.
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Stop bumping your thread thats how you are going to get an infraction or banned. You can only bump your own thread once a day. Do it again and ill report you
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Hi guys m facing a strange issue. I have observed that sometimes my proximity sensor remains on. I tried to find out the app causing it by Force Stopping each app one by one but that doesn't solve the problem. .
I am not using any motion like quick glance which uses the sensor or any other app like turning the screen on off (eg smart cover etc)
only a reboot fixes this issue but after sometime (say few hours or 1-2 days) the sensor turns on. . Can you suggest me what else shall I do? coz m observing more than normal battery drain in stand by mode. . Please help!
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Try turning off "quick glance" under settings--> motion.
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Try turning off "quick glance" under settings--> motion.
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kuberchib said:
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I am not using any motion like quick glance which uses the sensor...
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So it helped a lot are you using custum rom or stock? With stock I only have this on when quick glance on. I helped a lot too :s
Kalgan :s
m using stock rom and kernel...and I am not using quick glance..my phone's proximity sensor remains on even when the screen is on (unlike quick glance)
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I have the same bug... only a reboot solves it.
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I have the same bug... only a reboot solves it.
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at least m not alone
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me too same here dagnamit
I too have noticed it and posted it on a thread also
I also notice this..only now i came to know that it is proximity sensor..will appear as a dim red right and if it stays on, it turns off only if restarted..might be a bug..should we report it to samsung so that they will fix it in updates?
I have noticed one thing that after 2+ or more (random) days of usage if I receive/make a call the sensor doesn't turn off. .might be this is a s/w bug. .but this is what I have noticed after closely monitoring my phone. .
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I've noticed this too! Didn't know the dim red light was proximity sensor. But i've noticed it only twice (with battery below 40% on both occasions).
Viber has a known bug that cause the proximity sensor to be always on. If you uses it, u need to update to the latest version i think its v2.2.3.109.
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Viber has a known bug that cause the proximity sensor to be always on. If you uses it, u need to update to the latest version i think its v2.2.3.109.
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Viber's bug was fixed months back and I have the updated version too
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Got the same thing, however i didn't notice it affecting battery life whatsoever, still an awesome battery life.
Still, I would love to see what's the cause of this and how to resolve it.
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I have the same problem
I don't know y but I turned off "Increase volume in pocket" in settings and rebooted my device and the problem didn't return since last 4 days. . strange!
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Its on on all gn2 i have seen. Im getting 8hrs screen on time so i dont really care if it stays on as long as its not affecting my battery i'm happy
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I don't know y but I turned off "Increase volume in pocket" in settings and rebooted my device and the problem didn't return since last 4 days. . strange!
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Even though I first got this proximity sensor bug after I turned on "increase volume in pocket" (only 1 time so far), I'm pretty sure it's not related, because I did a few tests and as far as I could tell the phone increases the volume based on its position (and possibly movement) in the second it receives the call. If it's vertical (like in a pocket), or on its side (like in a bag), when you get a call, it will increase the volume. If the phone is horizontal, like on a table, and starts ringing, the volume doesn't increase, and it won't increase even if you pick it up and move it around while it's ringing.
I also thought initially that it uses data from the proximity sensor, but I tested and it doesn't care if it's covered or not when the phone rings, it appears to use data from the accelerometer/gyro exclusively.
I'm try turn all motion off right now. Let see if it can solve the problem
I have the same problem.
I resolve it by pressing volume up + home + power.
Let it restart and so far after about 1mth+ did not encounter this issue any more.
Hope this help :fingers-crossed:
i have the same problem
all motions are off
and still have it random....only restart to close the sensor