My main 2 concerns about the m7 that eventually led to me returning it for the Note 3 were:
- Overheating. My m7 was always hot to the touch, even when just browsing the Internet. Has this issue been fixed in the m8?
- This one is not a classic complaint, but it annoyed me personally. The lowest volume setting on the m7 was way too loud. When I would lay down at night time and, say, watch a YouTube video the lowest volume setting was always too loud and become annoying at night during sleeping hours. Hopefully the m8s volume pallete has expanded.
Also can the button bar be collapsed when playing games to make everything full screen? Is there an option in settings?
Thanks.
My m7 was always hot to the touch, even when just browsing the Internet.
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I own the M7 now and I've never had such issue...
The lowest volume setting on the m7 was way too loud.
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That's boom sound, you can't do anything about it
Also can the button bar be collapsed when playing games to make everything full screen?
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I don't know this necause I still don't have the phone but if not there will surely be such an option with custom ROMs
I had the HTC DNA which shared the same problems you mentioned about the m7. I played CoC for 2 hours last night and there was a noticeable difference in the lack of heat. I don't think it ever got hotter than body temperature through an Otterbox Defender. The DNA was a mini-furnace in the same type of case.
I watched a quick youtube video after we went to bed and it was barely audible on the lowest volume setting and didn't wake my wife on lvl 3.
Yes the bar disappears when you go full screen. You have to drag from the speaker inwards to make it reappear.
NoFanboy said:
Also can the button bar be collapsed when playing games to make everything full screen? Is there an option in settings?
Thanks.
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This is a feature in Android 4.4, so yes the on screen keys+notification bar can disappear in games, videos, and YouTube.
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NoFanboy said:
My main 2 concerns about the m7 that eventually led to me returning it for the Note 3 were:
- Overheating. My m7 was always hot to the touch, even when just browsing the Internet. Has this issue been fixed in the m8?
- This one is not a classic complaint, but it annoyed me personally. The lowest volume setting on the m7 was way too loud. When I would lay down at night time and, say, watch a YouTube video the lowest volume setting was always too loud and become annoying at night during sleeping hours. Hopefully the m8s volume pallete has expanded.
Also can the button bar be collapsed when playing games to make everything full screen? Is there an option in settings?
Thanks.
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As far as overheating - I know what you mean. My M7 and my DNA both had that issue, and thus far I haven't had that problem with the M8 yet. It always seems to be fairly cool regardless of what I'm doing.
I had the same volume issue with the M7 - even on the lowest volume setting, I'd always feel like it was too loud at night. The M8 has a huge volume range for its speakers, ranging from barely being able to hear it to people on other floors being able to hear it.
When you're on a fullscreen application (videos, games, etc), the button bar collapses automatically (not sure if there's even anything you can do to prevent it).
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I cannot hear the touch clicks for system sounds when clucking icons or settings etc. Its super quiet unless I put the speaker right against my ear. I'm not talking about the keyboard clicks, those are fine. Anyone having the same issue?
Edit: lock screen sound is effected too, lock and unlock sound used to work. But its barely audible.
Also I notice after time my screen sensitivity goes to crap and touches don't register easily. Lock the screen fixes this for a short while. But it happens again after a while.
All my sounds even screen unlock screen off clicks are barely audible just like they were stock .1 and .2. No foul.
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OK thanks, so it seems normal.
But my bigger issue is the touchscreen sensitivity. It keeps getting weak and doesn't register presses. Have to lock the screen to reset it. Grrr so annoying. Happens every few minutes.
Can't say I have seen that happen.
As for screen clicks, anything louder would be obnoxious.
My opinion is that UI audible feedback is significantly more quiet. Volume level for media and ringer/notifications set to max level and still can barely hear it. A regression for sure I think.
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RogerPodacter said:
OK thanks, so it seems normal.
But my bigger issue is the touchscreen sensitivity. It keeps getting weak and doesn't register presses. Have to lock the screen to reset it. Grrr so annoying. Happens every few minutes.
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Last time I had that was on my HTC HD2 (Leo) and after a while it didnt do anything anymore and I had to turn it in for repairs, I know its a different phone, but the symptoms are alike, so just my 2 cents
You didnt install any custom rom's or kernels?
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Can't say I have seen that happen.
As for screen clicks, anything louder would be obnoxious.
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More obnoxious lol? You don't understand, all I hear is dead silence even in a quiet room! Something is wrong with my sounds.
I noticed that the grays on my screen sometimes turn to violet for no reason at all? Does this happen to you guys as well? My speakers are also barely audible, I had an SGS2 and the loud speakers were very loud, are there mods or roms that address this issue that give them a little boost?
Overall an excellent phone, easily the best performing phone I have had.
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I noticed that the grays on my screen sometimes turn to violet for no reason at all? Does this happen to you guys as well? My speakers are also barely audible, I had an SGS2 and the loud speakers were very loud, are there mods or roms that address this issue that give them a little boost?
Overall an excellent phone, easily the best performing phone I have had.
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The grays on my screen have never ever turned violet, that seems a bit weird. The speakers I mine are also pretty good, I would maybe take it back.
I noticed this when I first got my phone and my battery was almost empty (3% or less). If I power on my screen the grays would be fine but after I turn it off and on again it would turn violet. I updated to 4.0.4 and so far I have not been able to replicate the issue.
My loudspeakers are just extremely soft. I can barely hear anything while watching a movie, youtube or listening to music with the loudspeakers. Are you sure this is not normal?? Is there any way for me to test this with an app or something?
Download Volume+ from the Google play market. You can definitely see a huge difference when tweaking the speaker volume. As for the screen turning violet, it could be a screen defect.
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Download Volume+ from the Google play market. You can definitely see a huge difference when tweaking the speaker volume. As for the screen turning violet, it could be a screen defect.
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Downloaded the free one and it worked perfectly. Does this app affect the headphones as well?
Another quirk I found with my GN is that every time something crashes or an error occurs the phone automatically asks me to send an email to report. Is this normal? Is there any way to turn this off? Do custom roms take out this nuisance?
Here is the email:
Yakju-user 4.0.4 imm761 330937
release-keys
(sent from bugmailer)
and it attached a text file and a screenshot
*never mind it seems that it's a bug report generated by pressing down the volume up down adn power button at the same time
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I noticed that the grays on my screen sometimes turn to violet for no reason at all? Does this happen to you guys as well? My speakers are also barely audible, I had an SGS2 and the loud speakers were very loud, are there mods or roms that address this issue that give them a little boost?
Overall an excellent phone, easily the best performing phone I have had.
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purple screen when brightness turned all the way down isnt normal, its seems to be a common issue but screen should not be purple(violet)
Yes my screen is purple too and I have this popping sound when audible touch tones are checked. Will call Google tomorrow for a replacement.
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I would go back to the store to get a new one.. the screen is not supposed to be purple. as for the volume+ app.. I'm a bit frightened by it. Okay the speaker is kinda soft when I'm being called, but the speakers were designed and calibrated for those volumes.
overriding that an break things...
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I would go back to the store to get a new one.. the screen is not supposed to be purple. as for the volume+ app.. I'm a bit frightened by it. Okay the speaker is kinda soft when I'm being called, but the speakers were designed and calibrated for those volumes.
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Ok I finally got to reproduce the issue. If I open my messaging app on a place with low light condition or at night time (display brightness automatically goes down), the top gray bar which has the contact name number call sign and attach sign turns violet but strangely enough the lower gray bar which holds the new message icon has a lighter shade and displays the color correctly.
If I revert to settings and disable auto brightness and max it out and go back to messaging it becomes gray again. I also tried it on auto brightness on a normally lit room and it's fine. Anyone else with the same issue?
I've used the SGS before and remember that white's on my screen would be a little more grayish/yellowish. This must be an issue caused by pentile displays. I was beginning to wonder if it was my eyesight that was failing me lol!
Does this happen to your units as well?
So, I'm coming from an AT&T HTC One XL and I have a handful of questions. The screen and the camera on the HOXL were borderline perfection in my opinion, but the phone had a few flaws led me to an SIII.
1) The auto brightness on the SIII is laughable. The HTC One X was seamless and smooth with its auto brightness adjustment, and I never once turned auto brightness off. I have had the SIII for a day and I cannot stand it. Are there any solutions out there for the jerkiness and delay of the SIII's auto brightness function? If not, what do most of you keep your brightness at? Right now, I'm finding ~70% to be fair. Anything below that is a sacrifice and I don't do sacrifices for battery life.
2) Pentile.... I cannot stop noticing the pentile. Granted, I am coming from perfection in terms of screen quality I was hoping it wouldn't be this noticeable. To exacerbate the issue, I use my phone an awful lot as an e-reader. My eyes were playing games with me while using the Kindle App last night (same settings as One X). I kept blinking as I thought it was a result of my eyes, but it was the screen. The font simply does not have smooth, sharp edges. Will my eyes get used to this or is this going to be a constant battle?
3) I recall a setting on my GS2 where I could sync up phone call ringtone volume and notification volume when I adjusted the volume on the side of the phone. I did not find this setting on the SIII. Does one exist? I
4) One the One X, when I had headphones in, notifications and phone calls would be pumped through the headphones instead of the loudspeaker. Is there a setting I can enable where ringtone and notification tone flow through headphones when attached?
Thanks!
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So, I'm coming from an AT&T HTC One XL and I have a handful of questions. The screen and the camera on the HOXL were borderline perfection in my opinion, but the phone had a few flaws led me to an SIII.
1) The auto brightness on the SIII is laughable. The HTC One X was seamless and smooth with its auto brightness adjustment, and I never once turned auto brightness off. I have had the SIII for a day and I cannot stand it. Are there any solutions out there for the jerkiness and delay of the SIII's auto brightness function? If not, what do most of you keep your brightness at? Right now, I'm finding ~70% to be fair. Anything below that is a sacrifice and I don't do sacrifices for battery life.
2) Pentile.... I cannot stop noticing the pentile. Granted, I am coming from perfection in terms of screen quality I was hoping it wouldn't be this noticeable. To exacerbate the issue, I use my phone an awful lot as an e-reader. My eyes were playing games with me while using the Kindle App last night (same settings as One X). I kept blinking as I thought it was a result of my eyes, but it was the screen. The font simply does not have smooth, sharp edges. Will my eyes get used to this or is this going to be a constant battle?
3) I recall a setting on my GS2 where I could sync up phone call ringtone volume and notification volume when I adjusted the volume on the side of the phone. I did not find this setting on the SIII. Does one exist? I
4) One the One X, when I had headphones in, notifications and phone calls would be pumped through the headphones instead of the loudspeaker. Is there a setting I can enable where ringtone and notification tone flow through headphones when attached?
Thanks!
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1- I personally use a modded auto brightness but you can probably find a app that will do a better job at it than stock firmware. I believe there are some in here as well (in the app section of XDA).
2- Never had a android that didn't have a SAMOLED screen so I don't know what difference you're talking about. Although, I use my phone quite a lot as well and my eyes don't get tired. Keep in mind that screen brightness too high = damages your eyes, too low = hard on your eyes.
3- Settings -> Sound -> Volumes -> check link volume.
4- That should be on by default. If it's not, there's either a app that changed it or you did yourself.
Btw, what firmware are you running?
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1- I personally use a modded auto brightness but you can probably find a app that will do a better job at it than stock firmware. I believe there are some in here as well (in the app section of XDA).
2- Never had a android that didn't have a SAMOLED screen so I don't know what difference you're talking about. Although, I use my phone quite a lot as well and my eyes don't get tired. Keep in mind that screen brightness too high = damages your eyes, too low = hard on your eyes.
3- Settings -> Sound -> Volumes -> check link volume.
4- That should be on by default. If it's not, there's either a app that changed it or you did yourself.
Btw, what firmware are you running?
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Thanks for the reply!
3 - Don't see this setting...
4 - Ya know what, maybe I did. The only setting I changed was unchecking "connecting earphones will enable audio applications in quick panel" in the Accessory menu as I didn't like all the apps being displayed in the notification area. I wouldn't think those are related though...
EDIT: I'm on stock ATT 4.1.1
EDIT 2: Just tried checking the box I unchecked for the audio applications and notifications still play through loudspeaker..
With most Android Wear watches lacking an ambient light sensor, this Huawei one included, I'm wondering if you often have to manually adjust brightness, either not to be blinded at night, or to actually see the screen in daylight.
As far as I understand, an awake watch will get brighter, and ambient mode will be darker. There's also the double and triple crown clicks for theater (screen off) and sunlight (brighter) modes. And things like Display Brightness for Wear, or through AutoWear for finer grained and somewhat automated results.
And that's what I'm really wondering: if I can get a satisfying custom behaviour through AutoWear, by slices of day time (eg, brightest at noon, and progressively darker as night approaches), that'd be fine enough to me. But if I constantly have to adjust things manually, I fear that would quickly become annoying (I can spend a lot of energy tweaking automation to ensure I can be as lazy as can be afterwards ).
Do you choose a middle ground brightness setting and are fine with it most of the time, except when you rarely have to double or triple crown click? Do you find yourself manually adjusting brightness a few times a day? Do you constantly fiddle with brightness settings?
I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
I missed it greatly from my urbane, so I went back to it.
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I missed it greatly from my urbane, so I went back to it.
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Uh? Missed what? The Urbane has no ambient light sensor either, does it?
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Uh? Missed what? The Urbane has no ambient light sensor either, does it?
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UH! Yeah it does! Its by the lugs.
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by the lugs
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You're speaking of the two holes for the mic? Anyway, I'm not intested in the Urbane at all, so it's completely off topic.
What I'm interested in is how often do people with the Huawei watch feel the need to manually change brightness settings.
Crown
So, by hitting the crown three times, the brightness goes up one level?
Also, is the crown button function behavior customizable?
Thanks!
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I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
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So, by hitting the crown three times, the brightness goes up one level?
Also, is the crown button function behavior customizable?
Thanks!
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It actually goes to max brightness only until the screen goes back to sleep.
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It actually goes to max brightness only until the screen goes back to sleep.
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I see, thanks.
I don't change it often at all. Most of the time 2 or 3 has been plenty bright for me, and the triple click to up it a bit works pretty well...
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You're speaking of the two holes for the mic? Anyway, I'm not intested in the Urbane at all, so it's completely off topic.
What I'm interested in is how often do people with the Huawei watch feel the need to manually change brightness settings.
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Have the watch since tuesday ("Active", ie black, with single layer leather) And I agree: most of the time, 2 or 3 are enough. 1 is actually even too bright to me at night, especially since I'm seemingly unable to have ambient brightness get as low as how bright it is awake at 1 (is ambient brightness level fixed?).
Under direct sunlight, it's not always that easy to see even with the bright 3-click sunlight mode. But generally, twisting my wrist a little to avoid direct reflections, or at worst covering it a bit with my other hand, is enough.
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Have the watch since tuesday ("Active", ie black, with single layer leather) And I agree: most of the time, 2 or 3 are enough. 1 is actually even too bright to me at night, especially since I'm seemingly unable to have ambient brightness get as low as how bright it is awake at 1 (is ambient brightness level fixed?).
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Ambient mode brightness is not configurable on the watch, but certain 3rd-party watchfaces offer this setting. I'm using Skymaster and it offers different brightness for ambient mode.
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Ambient mode brightness is not configurable on the watch, but certain 3rd-party watchfaces offer this setting. I'm using Skymaster and it offers different brightness for ambient mode.
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Does that setting only apply to the actual watch face, or to the whole display? I've managed to make it dimmer with a partially transparent black layer in WatchMaker, but it doesn't apply to cards previews, or icons such as mute...
SWapp True Dark allows for actually adjusting the brightness of the whole ambient display, which is already great, but I'd rather have that manageable through Tasker (to have it auto adjust by time of the day). Have asked João if this could be implemented in AutoWear, so maybe it'll end up manageable through that.
Seems quite crazy to me this setting is not available by default. Reminds me, even though I think Android is the best OS of its kind, how lame I find it without the truckload of customization I lay over it...
I have 8 days ago my Huawei SW. It's my first SmartWatch and I'm really disappointed not to do anything with Tasker and Android Wear to adjust brightness to my liking clock automatically.
On the day I need more brightness when I'm out and at night the minimum brightness of the screen saver is very strong.
The bothers me most at the moment is so intense brightness of screen saver at night. No achievement make it more tenuous. Anyone know if there is any app that you can do?
Hopefully one of the experts and boys of this site something to be developed further manipulate Androi tasker and wear.
I've been using Display Brightness for Wear. It allows for different brightness settings for day and night in different situations. I wish it was more customizable or there were some ways to control brightness with tasker. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find those.
Autowear just needs to be able to receive a message that ambient is selected. It thinks the watch is off instead of in ambient. Frankly, though, SWapp does what I need. I also use WatchMaker faces and customize the dim mode to my liking.
i use Wear Mini Launcher and have it set to show the widgets before the apps, so one swipe to the right gets me a brightness slider. Its very each to adjust this way. With Wear Mini Launcher I can also quickly set my phone to silent/vibrate mode, turn on flashlight, ping the phone even if the phone is on vibrate, etc
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Autowear just needs to be able to receive a message that ambient is selected. It thinks the watch is off instead of in ambient. Frankly, though, SWapp does what I need. I also use WatchMaker faces and customize the dim mode to my liking.
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i use Wear Mini Launcher and have it set to show the widgets before the apps, so one swipe to the right gets me a brightness slider. Its very each to adjust this way. With Wear Mini Launcher I can also quickly set my phone to silent/vibrate mode, turn on flashlight, ping the phone even if the phone is on vibrate, etc
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I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
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wait...WAT?! i've never known this...btw it doesn't work with Android Wear 2.0 preview 2
I've thought of something somewhat cool but I'm no developer.
What if we can use our cellphone's ambient light sensor to sync with the watch so that the watch can get both bright and/or dim when needed?
Theoretically this will function correctly if your phone isn't in your pocket all the time.
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During phone calls while using the phone on my ear, the screen will dim like normal and touch is not responsive... But after the call, I move the phone away from my ear, the screen will not wake-up and requires waking with power button. I can only recall a handful of times where the phone acted normally after a call...
Anyone else experiencing this? I am rooted w/ magisk and I have verified the proximity sensor is working (using Droid Info app) -
I am turning off adaptive battery not only to see if it helps with this concern, but overall performance and will update w/ changes
Had this happen as well. Not rooted. Can't remember but i vaguely recall this with other versions of android
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During phone calls while using the phone on my ear, the screen will dim like normal and touch is not responsive... But after the call, I move the phone away from my ear, the screen will not wake-up and requires waking with power button. I can only recall a handful of times where the phone acted normally after a call...
Anyone else experiencing this? I am rooted w/ magisk and I have verified the proximity sensor is working (using Droid Info app) -
I am turning off adaptive battery not only to see if it helps with this concern, but overall performance and will update w/ changes
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got a crappy screen protector? that'd be my guess
Nope nothing, naked
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Nope nothing, naked
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Same. And it doesn't happen every time.
Right after I posted this, made a phone call and it blacked out again this time no power button, double tap, shake, twist, etc would wake the phone. Eventually after about 2 mins it woke up again...
Possibly unrelated, but about every 1 in 5 reboots my screen won't turn on. Stays black, no back light. The phone still responds to ADB and fastboot commands, but nothing will turn the screen on until I hold down power to restart.
Same here.its happened multiple times. naked Pixel here, not rooted. its annoying.
I've made/received 100 calls since Thursday, and it happened for the first time last night. I was able to get it out of black by accidentally doing a screenshot while trying to reboot.
Happened at least 4 times today. Just noticed an update to the Phone app was released, let's see if that makes a difference.
No screen protector, etc.
honestly after some more calls with this issue, i think my dirty ear and is causing the close proximity reading... after the most recent episode, i went to the droid info app and it was reading the sensor at 0 cm and after wiping the notch off, it started to read correctly (5.0 cm) >>> i dont really want to give the haters another reason to dog the notch but, in my case, i think its going to be an issue. i may switch the "power button to end call" on and see if that will alleviate my issue for now -
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Right after I posted this, made a phone call and it blacked out again this time no power button, double tap, shake, twist, etc would wake the phone. Eventually after about 2 mins it woke up again...
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Same exact thing happened with me yesterday, could it be a RAM management issue?
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I've made/received 100 calls since Thursday, and it happened for the first time last night. I was able to get it out of black by accidentally doing a screenshot while trying to reboot.
Happened at least 4 times today. Just noticed an update to the Phone app was released, let's see if that makes a difference.
No screen protector, etc.
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Thanks for the heads up. I have unrooted and naked 3 XL. This screen off thing was affecting all calls. If the remote party hung up, I was fine. If I got into someones VM, I had to sit quietly until the call dropped.
I added myself to the Phone app Beta program and updated. After several test calls, I think it's fixed.