I was wondering if my sensor is malfunction or something, Last night the left sensor was red. It was litten up for a while and didnt turn off even when I put the phone to sleep. Is this something normal? Sorry new to note 2. As a bonus does the note 2 have emojis? Cant find those anywhere. P.s. sorry if I dont make sence im hung over. :thumbdown:
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red led while plugged in means it is charging
It's called Led
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No I know that.. its the third visible hole starting from right first. The sensor.. (right side of speaker) it was glowing red and my phone was disconected from the charger with LED light off. Closest thing I can relate the color too was like the red of a burning metal. For some reason I cabt upload pics.
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Gore785 said:
I was wondering if my sensor is malfunction or something, Last night the left sensor was red. It was litten up for a while and didnt turn off even when I put the phone to sleep. Is this something normal? Sorry new to note 2. As a bonus does the note 2 have emojis? Cant find those anywhere. P.s. sorry if I dont make sence im hung over. :thumbdown:
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Yes sensor reaming on is normal no worries
sling said:
Yes sensor reaming on is normal no worries
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Thank you.
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I have a red light constantly on even when phone is asleep. I believe it could a proximity light. Is it a malfunction as it was there before. I don't have amart stay on or anything like that and even rebooted the phone
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If it is to the right of earpiece then its proximity sensor. If it is to the left of it, its led indicator. Red generally means low battery
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chucke1989 said:
I have a red light constantly on even when phone is asleep. I believe it could a proximity light. Is it a malfunction as it was there before. I don't have amart stay on or anything like that and even rebooted the phone
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Is your quick glance on? It also trigger the promixity sensor.
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Swipe your hand slowly over the sensor and the phone will show time, missed calls, messages, and battery percentage. I think it's a pretty tight feature. Was just wondering how many people actually knew about it and use it.
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How do to activate it?
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How do to activate it?
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Settings> >motion. It's the first option
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It's a nice feature but I wonder how much battery it will drain? If you think about it, in order for it to respond when you put your hand over the sensor, it means the sensor is always going to be on. That means something is running all the time.
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settings > motions > quick glance
I do use it. the first few days I had the Note II I kept wondering why is it turning on by itself. there was no ad about it like the other touchwiz features of the S III on youtube. then I found lots of touchwiz features on settings. LOTS.
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safeplayer22 said:
It's a nice feature but I wonder how much battery it will drain? If you think about it, in order for it to respond when you put your hand over the sensor, it means the sensor is always going to be on. That means something is running all the time.
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Good point about battery life, but battery life on this device is so good at least for me. I'm willing to to sacrifice what ever drain it does use tho. I love this freakin phone.
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Don't seem to always work for me.
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Markor13 said:
Don't seem to always work for me.
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it needs to lay on a flat surface
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Just checked, this feature keeps the proximity sensor always on when the screen is off. To test, turn the phone of in a dark room, you should see a red glow in the sensor.
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it needs to lay on a flat surface
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Even laying the phone flat on my side table it seems to work sometimes. This feature is good but seems to be hit and miss.
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I tried using it for a while and noticed it had noticeably more battery drain for me. I guess YMMV though.
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I also experienced a noticable battery drain after enabling the feature. Then when I turned my screen on it would not sleep. Rebooted and it works fine.
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It's a nice feature but I wonder how much battery it will drain? If you think about it, in order for it to respond when you put your hand over the sensor, it means the sensor is always going to be on. That means something is running all the time.
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Its a really nice feature for when ur walkimg around ur office or house and just wanna see if u have any missed txt, but i did read something online where it drained the battery super fast. So i shut the feature off and i literally got 5hrs more out of the battery, wasn't worrying through out the work day if it was gonna die.
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Even laying the phone flat on my side table it seems to work sometimes. This feature is good but seems to be hit and miss.
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Same, very hit and miss for me.
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used it for about an hour, was pretty meh. Good concept, but bad implementation. I have my phone on my desk and it was always turning on and off. But when I needed it to to show me quick glance data, it worked about 50% of the time.
The only thing from that menu I love is the Palm Swype to screen capture.
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I have been testing the quick glance feature and noticed that it works best in low light conditions, especially in darkness..
I sleep with my phone on my bed (I use it as my alarm clock) and with the lights out quick glance works for me every time. I have gotten to like it because the screen is much easier on the eyes, at night (dimmer), than hitting the power button to check the time/notifications. I disable it during the day though.
The Palm swipe for a screen shot is awesome. It is a much faster way to take a screen shot than having to take out and use the S-Pen.. I wish the screen didn't turn white while swiping though. Not a big deal I just think the loud click upon taking the shot is enough to let the user know the shot had been taken.
I used it when I got my Note in November but as mentioned, it does cause a very noticeable battery drain.
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The only thing from that menu I love is the Palm Swype to screen capture.
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my favorite on there too. I used the quick glance the first few days then just got tired of it. I prefer the smart alert, it vibrates when I go pick it up if I have a missed call or message.
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i've never seen anything like this in all my years now with android. no matter what rom i am on comletely stock or any of the custom roms when i make a phone call my phone call and the person doesn't answer my phone is black and locked up. i can't hit the power button to turn it on the only way to get my phone back is a battery pull.
basically, when i make a call i cannnot turn the screen on to hit the keypad, can't do anything. if i make a call and the person answers everything will be ok - after they hangup. i can't hangup since i can't get to my onscreen buttons to hangup.
things i've tried
stock and custom roms with no apps loaded
wiping multiple times
fixing permissions
dialer one from the market
any ideas what could be wrong? it must be a hardware problem or something.
Is your proximity sensor working correctly? Try using some of the motions in settings.
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yeah, i was thinking the proximity sensor must be broken. but even if it is broken why would i not be able to hit power to turn the phone screen back on.
ive never used motions before not sure i'm doing it correctly to determine if its broke for sure
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Is your proximity sensor working correctly? Try using some of the motions in settings.
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I think what he's saying is go into settings>motions and check quick glance. Then with ur screen off wave ur hand over ur prox sensor and ur screen should turn on with info about ur phone and current time and such..
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I think what he's saying is go into settings>motions and check quick glance. Then with ur screen off wave ur hand over ur prox sensor and ur screen should turn on with info about ur phone and current time and such..
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yep, i'd say the proximity sensor is broken. doing this in the motion settings works fine on my brothers note 2 and will not work with mine
any idea what my options are if the prox sensor is indeed broken? i suposse the only option is to try to take it back to sprint.
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yep, i'd say the proximity sensor is broken. doing this in the motion settings works fine on my brothers note 2 and will not work with mine
any idea what my options are if the prox sensor is indeed broken? i suposse the only option is to try to take it back to sprint.
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Yeah, first thing I would try is a warranty claim through sprint.. As long as there's no physical sign of abuse, they will prob take care of ya..
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Go the sprint route for sure. Unless you are feeling ballsy and open it up to make sure one of the cables didnt come loose
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I'm having the same issue. Just did a factory reset and no luck so I guess I'll go to the sprint store. Will I get a new device?
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49ml said:
I'm having the same issue. Just did a factory reset and no luck so I guess I'll go to the sprint store. Will I get a new device?
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Perform a FULL wipe and reflash your ROM
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Perform a FULL wipe and reflash your ROM
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I am on stock. I just took apart my phone and blew air at the proximity senor and reattached it and now it is fixed.
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This stupid and useless function when the phone turns on to show you any notifications+info when you pass your hand over the sensor is pissing me off. First, it seems to work and NOT work whenever it feels like it. Secondly, whenever I pass my hand over it (intentionally or accidentally), once the screen turns off -that's if it turns on to begin with- the stupid blue light starts blinking and doesn't stop until I unlock the screen. WTF is this about? This stupid blue light is supposed to blink only when there's a message or some other notification (supposedly) but it keeps coming on for the reason I mentioned (not just when there's a message....). This is pissing me off so much that I just smacked the phone and cracked the back cover. Any way I can turn off this crap ?
Yes, unset motion settings turn off quick glance.
Then seek anger management ASAP
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Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
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Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
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You need a chill pill my friend
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Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
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It means you're using a phone with a bag imei. That's the man tracking your current location
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You really need to calm down. The devices notification light is there to help you not hurt you... youre being angered by a flashing blue light... thats doing what its supposed to do...
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It means you're using a phone with a bag imei. That's the man tracking your current location
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Lmaooo
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Black electrical tape will solve your problem. Apply a small rhombus of tape over and covering the light. No need to thank me, I do this s*** for free.
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Why when I press dial the screen turns off right away? The screen should only turn off when I put it next to my ear. It's very annoying when I'm dialing automated systems and need to use the keypad because if I manually turn the screen back on and then put it next to my ear to talk the screen doesn't turn off and I end up accidentally pushing buttons.
On an iphone the screen remains on and only turns of when put next to my ear, and turns right back on when pulled away from an ear. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior on GS4?
Go to settings/My device/call settings and select turn off screen during calls. That should do it.
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Thanks, the screen doesn't turn off anymore but it also stays on when I put it next to my ear... I don't get why Samsung can't get a basic function like that right.
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Why when I press dial the screen turns off right away? The screen should only turn off when I put it next to my ear. It's very annoying when I'm dialing automated systems and need to use the keypad because if I manually turn the screen back on and then put it next to my ear to talk the screen doesn't turn off and I end up accidentally pushing buttons.
On an iphone the screen remains on and only turns of when put next to my ear, and turns right back on when pulled away from an ear. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior on GS4?
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In your original post you forgot to let us know what exact rom you are using.
It would be very helpful to know that and other specifics before offering any suggestions.
Good luck!
Well, I tried this on a stock rom with the same result. Are you saying it works for you?
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ilogik said:
Why when I press dial the screen turns off right away? The screen should only turn off when I put it next to my ear. It's very annoying when I'm dialing automated systems and need to use the keypad because if I manually turn the screen back on and then put it next to my ear to talk the screen doesn't turn off and I end up accidentally pushing buttons.
On an iphone the screen remains on and only turns of when put next to my ear, and turns right back on when pulled away from an ear. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior on GS4?
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Download an app from the android market (its free) called AndroSensor and see if that app is saying the proximity sensor is blocked. You might have a spec of dirt causing it to always return that its blocked. Read other threads with same issue, and in the one thread, the guy at T-Mobile took a can of compressed air and blasted out the earpiece and it fixed it.
I downloaded the app and proximity sensor does not show any reading all the other functions have a graph next to them but not the sensor. Does this mean it's broken? And if it is broken does tmobile exchange the phone or do I have to send it back to Samsung?
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I downloaded the app and proximity sensor does not show any reading all the other functions have a graph next to them but not the sensor. Does this mean it's broken? And if it is broken does tmobile exchange the phone or do I have to send it back to Samsung?
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Screenshot? Mine says "waiting for event" then after I put my hand over the sensor it changed it's value (but stayed on 0.0) something is wrong with my sensor obviously lol
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No values change no matter what I try.
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No values change no matter what I try.
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It's definitely a hardware issue which should be covered. You just gotta make sure you get it back to stock and reset your counter with triangle away.
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No values change no matter what I try.
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Agreed. Definitely hardware. Your sensor is reporting that the sensor is never covered and always open. Use that app and a test call to show the Rep at T-Mobile.
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Went to t mobile store, flirted with the chick and she overnighted a new phone without even looking at mine...
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