My Boss's new Galaxy S4 is dialing on its own. Has happen 3 different times and one of the times it even called 911. Also Motion (I believe that is what it is called) is turned off.
Has anyone ran into this issue??
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Does he have screen lock on? Any chance he's just butt dialing?
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This morning out of the blue my phone started using voice notifications and I can't turn it off, and don't see anywhere in the settings where this can be changed or even activated. It will tell me every time I get a email or text and it's very frustrating because I have different notification sounds already assigned, I don't want to hear you have 7 emails, or you have a text from Amber's cell.
Is anyone else having this issue? I have re-started my phone and it's still doing it, and it's a non-rooted phone. Any help would be great.
Never mind, I figured it out, I had driver mode on, must have accidentally cut it on.
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Sorry if this has already been posted, I did a search and couldn't find anything.
Anyway, this is a new issue for me as I didn't have this problem before getting my OTA of 4.0.4 last week. When I was on 4.0.2, I didn't have this issue - but I do now that I am on 4.0.4.
My phone will let me dial the area code + 7 digits, but if I am required to input numbers after the call is connected (like when calling your credit card company) the dial-pad screen and phone shuts off as soon as I click the 1st number.
I then have to turn on the phone, swipe to unlock, go back into the phone dialer and do this for each number input.
Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas/and or suggestions how to fix, or at least a workaround until Google gets it fixed?
Not sure if this matters, but I am stock GSM/T-Mobile.
Thank you.
Bmerz said:
Sorry if this has already been posted, I did a search and couldn't find anything.
Anyway, this is a new issue for me as I didn't have this problem before getting my OTA of 4.0.4 last week. When I was on 4.0.2, I didn't have this issue - but I do now that I am on 4.0.4.
My phone will let me dial the area code + 7 digits, but if I am required to input numbers after the call is connected (like when calling your credit card company) the dial-pad screen and phone shuts off as soon as I click the 1st number.
I then have to turn on the phone, swipe to unlock, go back into the phone dialer and do this for each number input.
Anyone else having this issue? Any ideas/and or suggestions how to fix, or at least a workaround until Google gets it fixed?
Not sure if this matters, but I am stock GSM/T-Mobile.
Thank you.
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This happens to me, however I only have to pull my hand away from the phone to bring it back to the dial pad.
I am guessing you have your phone set to lock "immediately" when the screen goes black (I have mine set to five seconds, so this does not happen to me)
What is happening (in my case at least) is an overly sensitive proximity sensor. It catches your hand, thinking you're putting the phone to your face, and darkens the screen. I have to be careful where I place my hand when I use the dialer after I am on a call (say, checking voicemail and entering password)
If your phone is set to lock immediately, try setting it to five seconds, and see if that helps.
This also happened on my GS2..
ingenious247 said:
This happens to me, however I only have to pull my hand away from the phone to bring it back to the dial pad.
I am guessing you have your phone set to lock "immediately" when the screen goes black (I have mine set to five seconds, so this does not happen to me)
What is happening (in my case at least) is an overly sensitive proximity sensor. It catches your hand, thinking you're putting the phone to your face, and darkens the screen. I have to be careful where I place my hand when I use the dialer after I am on a call (say, checking voicemail and entering password)
If your phone is set to lock immediately, try setting it to five seconds, and see if that helps.
This also happened on my GS2..
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Thank you, I will look into my settings and change it. But as for the other thing, one has to have their hand on/near the dialer in order to input more numbers. Perhaps I can angle the phone and my hand in a way that the sensor doesn't see my hand over the dial pad. (What a PITA! lol)
Nonetheless, thank you for chiming in!
Has anyone else had a problem with the Optimus G being more prone to accidental 911 calls so far? It's happened to me three times in the last week, more than my Galaxy S2 did in 2 years.
Obviously somehow the power button is activating the screen, and then pressure on the screen is activating the Emergency dial key. But why this phone and not the S2 or my Nexus One before? I've asked nottach if the emergency dial key can be changed from single button to something else in The Base ROM, but I suspect this is hardcoded.
I have never ass dialed anything in ever. With any phone.
I opened a text message by accident when the phone was in my pocket. Now I disable screen wake when receiving a text. The phone was in my front pocket. This is the first phone to do this. Probably because when I used iPhones I had to slide to open things and not just tap.
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I have never actually had a 911 call placed, but i have noticed that on a number of occasions the standard lock screen buttons disappear (the call, text, browser, camera ones at the bottom of the screen) and are replaced by the dial emergency button. I have yet to figure out what causes this to happen or found any way to force it to happen.
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I have never actually had a 911 call placed, but i have noticed that on a number of occasions the standard lock screen buttons disappear (the call, text, browser, camera ones at the bottom of the screen) and are replaced by the dial emergency button. I have yet to figure out what causes this to happen or found any way to force it to happen.
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The only time i have ever seen emergency dial on any phone is from no service. Is it possible youre losing signal or your sim is not fully inserted?
Never happened to me.
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Isn't emergency dial the only other button available on the pattern lock screen when the screen wakes up?
I've used pattern lock for my lock screen since the Nexus One and never had a problem with accidental 911 calls before.
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I just got my Note 2 and may have missed the answer some FAQ. But today I noticed that while using Google Maps to do some navigation, I received a phone call and during the call, the screen went blank. The phone kept telling me the turn by turn information but kept the screen off. The screen only came on after the call was completed. I don't remember my SG2 doing this.
Google maps has an option to dim screen - which isn't the same as turning it off. I'm not sure if was triggered due to the phone call or something else. On a recent trip with my SG2, the phone never turned the screen off during navigation.
Is there a setting someplace? I know there are apps but I don't want to have to remember to do 2 or 3 things in order to navigate.
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I just got my Note 2 and may have missed the answer some FAQ. But today I noticed that while using Google Maps to do some navigation, I received a phone call and during the call, the screen went blank. The phone kept telling me the turn by turn information but kept the screen off. The screen only came on after the call was completed. I don't remember my SG2 doing this.
Google maps has an option to dim screen - which isn't the same as turning it off. I'm not sure if was triggered due to the phone call or something else. On a recent trip with my SG2, the phone never turned the screen off during navigation.
Is there a setting someplace? I know there are apps but I don't want to have to remember to do 2 or 3 things in order to navigate.
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See I'm not sure but people in general have this issue. When during a phone call the screen will stay off. However I've been on stock and I don't have this issue as soon as I let my hand away and the proximity sensor sense is that the phone is not close to my ear the screen will turn on. And then I just hit the home button and then go back into navigation.
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Have you tried that on driving mode see if does the same thing?
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shabgard said:
Have you tried that on driving mode see if does the same thing?
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No, I haven't tried driving mode yet.. I'm going to test navigation without sending or receiving call to see what happens. The device is sitting in a cubby on the dash and I use an integrated Bluetooth solution. I verified the SG2 doesn't exhibit this issue - but then again, the SG2 is on a custom rom so there could be a patch in play.
is there any way to accidentally call 911 on android pie with the pixel 2 xl? long story short i found a 911 call was placed for roughly 5 minutes on my phone while i had it on me last week, but i don't remember making this call. 911 called me back after but my phone was on silent. no message, they didn't call back again and several days later and nothing came of it, but it is concerning. i've heard this happen on oneplus and samsung phones, but not pixel. i even tried on the lock screen and if you hit emergency dial you still have to type in a number, so unless there is a way to press the power/vol in some sequence to auto dial 911, i think you'd have to be pretty deliberate about it otherwise.
Try disabling On-body Detection in Smart Lock (Settings > Security & location > Smart Lock). I ended up "butt dialing" a friend of mine in Nevada at 7am my time because of it being on.