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A few questions for MIUI users

I'm new to rooting, installed MIUI and loving it so far. My hw is 003. Everything is working so far but i have a few questions -
1. Do you use the default kernel or replaced it? I've seen screen tearing a few times and battery life could be better so I'm thinking of trying a different one. Read a number of threads in the root section.
2. Did you replace the lockscreen? I'm asking because I love its look, but if you enable security there's no slide to unlock and its not so useful.
3. How often do you update the MIUI build - I read it comes out every Fri, do they have major changes?

#3, the official build is done on friday, porting to individual phones is on/around sunday

1. I'm on the 1.1.28 build and using the kernel that came with it. Savage 1.6. It is by far the best kernel I have ever had the pleasure of flashing and I have no reason to use anything else. When I update to a newer build, I will most likely flash this kernel over it.
2. Still using stock lockscreen. I agree that the pattern lock could have been implemented better.
3. What elegantai said.

2 more issues I noticed -
1. Back button is now killing apps. The only way to fix it is turn off 'long press kills app', reboot, and turn it back on.
2. When in a call the notification bar cannot be dragged down.
Both are minor issues, just wondering if they are common.

1. That's not an issue at all, it's supposed to do that, and I think that's an awesome feature. If you just tap back it won't kill the app, and you can set how long the long press needs to be.
2. Never really noticed that before. Can you pull it down with a Sense ROM? It's been so long I can't remember. You can always hit the home key while in a call and pull the bar down from there.

ECrispy said:
2 more issues I noticed -
1. Back button is now killing apps. The only way to fix it is turn off 'long press kills app', reboot, and turn it back on.
2. When in a call the notification bar cannot be dragged down.
Both are minor issues, just wondering if they are common.
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I actually have the same problem with the app killing. Great feature yes but it always kills the app regardless of how long or short I press it lol. Changing the duration didnt seem to help.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

_MetalHead_ said:
1. That's not an issue at all, it's supposed to do that, and I think that's an awesome feature. If you just tap back it won't kill the app, and you can set how long the long press needs to be.
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It kills the app even when I just tap back, that's the bug. When its working yes, it only kills after a 2s tap.

ECrispy said:
It kills the app even when I just tap back, that's the bug. When its working yes, it only kills after a 2s tap.
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That's odd, it works perfectly for me. What MIUI build are you on?

_MetalHead_ said:
That's odd, it works perfectly for me. What MIUI build are you on?
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Latest - 1.2.11

I dunno, maybe it's a bug with that build.

from my observations the back tap close program happens only when a program is lagging. if you dont have too many things going on at once it shouldnt be a problem

yeahh it is a problem occasionally for me. I normally skip and flash every other week. This week im gonna flash again though, because it seems slow.

Physical Keyboard stops working

Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,

urundai said:
Quite frequently, my glide's physical keyboard stops working. A reboot fixes it but is kind of annoying to do this once a day
This is a new phone (less than a week old) and I am trying to find out if this is a known issue and if there is a fix for it. If my phone is defective, I might be able to still get a replacement from newegg.
I notice that there was another thread in XDA on the same topic but it quickly moved on to discuss some other issue with no clear advice.
Thanks and appreciate your help,
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Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.

dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.

urundai said:
Thanks for the response. I went back to my old iPhone 3 (Yuck). Let me double check on that when I get home this evening.
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If it is launching Different apps then it is the Quick launch that is the cause. You can see what Shortcut is associated with which app go here:Settings -> Applications -> Quick Launch
Most Launch with Search + any key. Perhaps your search button is stuck.
JB

Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?

If the random apps are opening, open the landscape keyboard and press the search button. If you accidentally press it and then you press a corresponding letter to open a certain app, it'll so that. And when you hit back, the phone thinks that you pressed the wrong letter key and has that quick open on. Just press search again. That's all lol
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I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
Thx

phatryan69 said:
Mine has that problem as well usually requires a reboot as well but can't ever get it to just do it on command. U on a custom rom? Or stock?
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I am on stock. It's just annoying when it happens at least once in 2 days.
I am thinking of rooting it and installing a custom rom to see if that takes care of it. Will keep you all posted.
I might turn on the debugging level in the logs as well to see if I can find out what's going on. Given that this happens only every two days or so, not sure if that will help much but let me see.

antonyfirst said:
I also have the problem of physical keyboard that stops working. No random apps, it just stops working. What to do to fix the issue, aside from rebooting?
Thx
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I am on Rogers stock ROM. At this point, it certainly looks like something to do with the software (will be hard to find several of us having the same hardware problem).

dudejb said:
Stops working all together or opens up different applications when you press a key? I had the latter. If it is the apps opening up double check you do not have any shift type button stuck as that would make it act funny and appear to not be working properly.
Tap on "ALT", "SHIFT", "SEARCH" see if that fixes it.
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+1.
My keyboard stops working too, but this doesn't happen very often. I experience this about once in 3-4 weeks for now.

I have had this problem a few times as well (on stock AT&T).. QWERTY doesn't respond at all, reboot fixes it! Got me worried the first couple of times though

I continue to run in to this once in a while. I have tried pressing all kinds of keys (search, alt etc) with no success. At times, I see some of the keys working but not others.
Anyway, this looks like software / driver issue. Looks like reboot is the only cure so far.

[Q] Sporadic Black Screen of Death, any solution?

I have the above issue with stock 4.2. Sometimes the screen goes blank (like a dark Grey back light), the phone is still on, but I can't get into it anymore. It registers touches etc, just the screen doesn't get back.
Flashed clean stock Image, factory reset and data restore.
Only battery pull helps. Happens 1 or 2 times per day in various situations (texting, browsing, whatsapp). Luckily I don't have any of the other 4.2 problems, except the missing December in Contacts. The phone is otherwise snappy as hell with 167 apps installed, recent tasks and swiping to close apps are instant.
Did anyone find a solution yet?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

nomad4ever said:
I have the above issue with stock 4.2. Sometimes the screen goes blank (like a dark Grey back light), the phone is still on, but I can't get into it anymore. It registers touches etc, just the screen doesn't get back.
Flashed clean stock Image, factory reset and data restore.
Only battery pull helps. Happens 1 or 2 times per day in various situations (texting, browsing, whatsapp). Luckily I don't have any of the other 4.2 problems, except the missing December in Contacts. The phone is otherwise snappy as hell with 167 apps installed, recent tasks and swiping to close apps are instant.
Did anyone find a solution yet?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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Same thing here, never had an issue with 4.1.2 but now it happens 2-3 times a day
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

same me..
this is really annoying..anyone tried a clean install of 4.2 to see if its get solved? im bored to wipe..

andQlimax said:
same me..
this is really annoying..anyone tried a clean install of 4.2 to see if its get solved? im bored to wipe..
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Let me know how that works... I have been having this problem also. Screen is blank every 2 days it happens once. Ever since 4.2 update. Before that I had no issues like this.
Also un related but I've started to notice faint horizontal lines in my screen. I use auto brightness. Is this normal or return for warranty?

i can confirm this happens to me too.
4.2 stock only rooted with custom recovery.

Same here folks, It may a bug in the 4.2 builds since Sprint did not officially release 4.2 yet.

This happens on my GSM model. It's never been rooted, and only started doing this after the 4.2 OTA.
You can shut the phone down without pulling the battery. Press the power button once to lock (or just wait until it locks on its own). Press the power button again to bring up the unlock screen, unlock and then long-press the power button. A short vibration tells you when the shutdown menu is up, and the SHUT DOWN button is across from the midpoint of the volume rocker, so you can press it without seeing it. The display works fine when it's powered back up again.
I have a theory that the problem is related to another bug in the auto-brightness in 4.2. The display always goes to maximum brightness for a split second before going black. I have set my phone to manual brightness for the last day or so and have not seen the problem again (yet).

same issue here, I'll try to keep the brightness to manual to see if it works

chanchan305 said:
same issue here, I'll try to keep the brightness to manual to see if it works
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Manual brightness didn't work for me. Everything I have read seems to lead to something wacky in source. I finally went back to 4.1.2. It hurt to go backwards,but no more issues. I'll come back when it is fixed.
By the way, I did discover that if I was at my computer when it happened, I could reboot the phone using adb.

MondoMor said:
This happens on my GSM model. It's never been rooted, and only started doing this after the 4.2 OTA.
You can shut the phone down without pulling the battery. Press the power button once to lock (or just wait until it locks on its own). Press the power button again to bring up the unlock screen, unlock and then long-press the power button. A short vibration tells you when the shutdown menu is up, and the SHUT DOWN button is across from the midpoint of the volume rocker, so you can press it without seeing it. The display works fine when it's powered back up again.
I have a theory that the problem is related to another bug in the auto-brightness in 4.2. The display always goes to maximum brightness for a split second before going black. I have set my phone to manual brightness for the last day or so and have not seen the problem again (yet).
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bfprd0 said:
Manual brightness didn't work for me. Everything I have read seems to lead to something wacky in source. I finally went back to 4.1.2. It hurt to go backwards,but no more issues. I'll come back when it is fixed.
By the way, I did discover that if I was at my computer when it happened, I could reboot the phone using adb.
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I experience this issue, but not that frequent. Once every 4 or 5 days, i don't know. I've managed to pull a logcat today as i was near of pc, as posted before, adb/phone is responsive, it even locks the screen normally, there was nothing useful on dmesg. I don't normally use auto-brightness, but enabled it a little while ago, although now i'm not sure if it was enabled the first time it happened. This last time, it wasn't enabled, that I'm sure.
It happened to me both when I was using XDA-app. I have almost 0 user apps installed right now, also uninstalled XDA. Reporting back in a few.

the issue is related to location services
the "bug" has been reported to google http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40140
for a temporary fix turn off services/apps that track you e.g. latitude

ogdobber said:
the issue is related to location services
the "bug" has been reported to google http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40140
for a temporary fix turn off services/apps that track you e.g. latitude
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huh... i also don't have location services active nor gps. i never do.
and, in our case, the phone is still on, it doesn't reboot, just the screen is black. it's not the same issue.
edit: if i manage to hit it again, my next step will be unroot. full stock.

bk201doesntexist said:
huh... i also don't have location services active nor gps. i never do.
and, in our case, the phone is still on, it doesn't reboot, just the screen is black. it's not the same issue.
edit: if i manage to hit it again, my next step will be unroot. full stock.
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ok...star this issue https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40019

hardware keys acting up all a sudden

Hey all. So the past few days I noticed that my Menu button on my S3 ATT has been showing the Google Now search. Additionally when pressing home often time it goes to the Multi Task window. These are settings I set for the 'long press'. I should note Im running CM 10.1 latest nightly and Nova Launcher (if it matters).
I figured this was a CM issue so I went to a 1 week old nightly but the same. Im not worried this may be something to do with the hardware buttons themselves. Really hoping its a software thing
Anyhow I appreciate any help on the subject or things I can try
Thanks!

Its worth adding that when I upgrade the nightly, then the buttons seem to work for at least a few hours. Im not sure if a simple reboot would also have this effect however I plan to monitor that when it starts acting up again and let you all know
Seems very odd to me that it works fine for awhile then gets worse and worse throughout the day
Thanks

I think what you're experiencing is a long button press bug. CM10.1 has a known issue of registering a long press (especially for hardware keys) even when you quickly tap.
So if I had to guess I'd say your phone is fine and it is CM10.1,

I should add this happens on my menu button too. It hasnt happened on my back button but I also have nothing on my Long Press for the back button.

RoachForLife said:
I should add this happens on my menu button too. It hasnt happened on my back button but I also have nothing on my Long Press for the back button.
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do you know if this is something that affects everyone on a galaxy s3, just some phones or all phones on cm10.1? i've been running cm10.1 on my d2vzw and generally stay on top of all the development related postings but see hardly any mentions of the topic. i realize it's not a huge bug as a simple restart will fix it but it certainly is annoying.
first post, btw :cyclops:

I havent seen mention of this before but I am not on the forums all that much.
Quick update - after flashing to latest nightly, its been nearly 24hrs without issue. Hope it stays this way

RoachForLife said:
I havent seen mention of this before but I am not on the forums all that much.
Quick update - after flashing to latest nightly, its been nearly 24hrs without issue. Hope it stays this way
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Update 2 - Yes, rebooting the phone does fix this. Last time I went 3 days before it began to act up. Rebooted and good as new. Kinda annoying but not the end of the world

Can't press 'Install' when installing an APK

Good evening, just lately I have encountered a bug when trying to install APK's. When I go to install via Package Installer it will open up the screen and when I go to press next it doesn't do anything, I have tried rotating the screen and pressing Next and it just doesn't work whatsoever...
I powered off my device and powered back on and this seemed like it fixed the problem.
Is/has anyone else encountered this? I've also noticed ometimes when typing on the keyboard the sound goes tinny for 5 seconds or so and go back to normal, it's been like this since unboxing too.

I haven't had this issue exactly, but when I install a new app and it asks for permission to access my location/storage/etc.. I can't press Allow.. I can press Deny though no problem at all. Right now I'm manually going into apps/permissions and granting all my apps whatever I think it needs.. Just a pain to do it that way though!

I had this issue the other night. It seems an invisible overlay gets stuck sometimes. Not sure what app or why, but clearing all the recent apps fixed it for me. Try that if it happens again instead of waiting for the phone to restart.
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Also had this problem two days ago and restarting seemed to fix it. I was disabling some of the stock apps at the time so I wondered if that had something to do with it but I don't know, don't think I re-enabled any of the apps or anything before or after the reboot and so far it's been working since.

mikeandjaimie said:
I haven't had this issue exactly, but when I install a new app and it asks for permission to access my location/storage/etc.. I can't press Allow.. I can press Deny though no problem at all. Right now I'm manually going into apps/permissions and granting all my apps whatever I think it needs.. Just a pain to do it that way though!
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Thanks for your feedback and I have also had that problem too. Of course yes we can go into app settings and enable and like you stated it's a pain haha. I know this isn't the place to point these problems out and get them fixed but it's nice to know I'm not the only one ??
redincali said:
I had this issue the other night. It seems an invisible overlay gets stuck sometimes. Not sure what app or why, but clearing all the recent apps fixed it for me. Try that if it happens again instead of waiting for the phone to restart.
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Yes dude, that's correct and thanks for that valuable information I do clean my cache regularly and can't say I've come across the problem for a while, so thanks again.
exonym said:
Also had this problem two days ago and restarting seemed to fix it. I was disabling some of the stock apps at the time so I wondered if that had something to do with it but I don't know, don't think I re-enabled any of the apps or anything before or after the reboot and so far it's been working since.
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I'd like to mention I have disabled and uninstalled quite a lot too, but I can't say if this adds to the problem. It'd just be really nice to hopefully get the new build of software that was recently announced on Xperia Blog but I can't say if this will fix the problems etc. I don't know? ??
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LevsOG said:
Good evening, just lately I have encountered a bug when trying to install APK's. When I go to install via Package Installer it will open up the screen and when I go to press next it doesn't do anything, I have tried rotating the screen and pressing Next and it just doesn't work whatsoever...
I powered off my device and powered back on and this seemed like it fixed the problem.
Is/has anyone else encountered this? I've also noticed ometimes when typing on the keyboard the sound goes tinny for 5 seconds or so and go back to normal, it's been like this since unboxing too.
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I've experienced this issue as well and the culprit seemed to be an overlay permission from another app. As I'm sure everyone knows, this phone's screen is very bright even at it's lowest setting. I like to read at night and the light bothers my wife so I started using an app called Nightowl that further dims the screen. Nightowl produces a overlay that dims the entire screen. If i happen to be running nightowl and try to install the app, I can't tap install. Once I turn off the app I'm able to install like normal. Hope that helps lead you in the right direction as restarting the phone every time a problem presents itself is kind of a bummer.