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Hey i don't know if this deserves its own thread or not, but i think it'd be pretty cool if the proximity sensor on the Touch Pro 2 could be used like those on blackberries, that when you put the phone in your pocket or a case with the screen on the screen would automatically turn off then turn back on when you took it out. Don't know if this would be possible but it is a really cool concept. Thanks
blackberries turn on cause theres a little magnet in the cases that turn on and off the screen. i dont think any blackberries have a proximity sensor. the storm is the only one with a touch screen to accidentally hit but you have to click it to do anything, and if your pushing a bb hard enough into your face to make the screen click, you deserve the have it push random buttons.
oh ok, that kinda sucks, still be kinda cool if it could be done though
i was wondering if theres some way to change the sensitivity or distance of the proximity sensor, i notice when my wife was using the phone the screen would turn on and off randomly i guess because of the way she was holding it to her ear, then i started noticing through the corner of my eye that my phone was doing this as well, it must think i've pulled it away from my ear when it senses different cavities in my ear, i'd like to turn it up to an extra 1/2" or so when i do hold the phone to my ear i know for certain it stays off, and when i really do pull it away from my head the screen wakes up. has anyone found the settings for this yet? i'm running juicy rom and my wife has mightyrom
TheLetterMan said:
Hey i don't know if this deserves its own thread or not, but i think it'd be pretty cool if the proximity sensor on the Touch Pro 2 could be used like those on blackberries, that when you put the phone in your pocket or a case with the screen on the screen would automatically turn off then turn back on when you took it out. Don't know if this would be possible but it is a really cool concept. Thanks
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you could have it that way but you would need to disable the power off after x minutes. then all you would need to do is keep the proximity sensor enabled
Changescreen has an option under the advanced settings to suspend the phone when it's placed face down or in your pocket (as long as its put in your pocket upside down). It doesn't turn back on when you pick it up or take it out of your pocket though, you have to hit the suspend button for that. I'd reccomend checking it out.
Oh ya it also does screen rotation via the G-sensor.
trevoroni said:
Changescreen has an option under the advanced settings to suspend the phone when it's placed face down or in your pocket (as long as its put in your pocket upside down). It doesn't turn back on when you pick it up or take it out of your pocket though, you have to hit the suspend button for that. I'd reccomend checking it out.
Oh ya it also does screen rotation via the G-sensor.
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I'm not sure if Changescreen actually uses the proximity sensor. It will shut off the screen even if you turn it upside down in the air. And I have found on numerous occasions that it still leaves the screen on in your pocket, which is too bad because it's handy to have.
Try PocketShield. It will automatically shut the screen off when put in your pocket or case. There is a free and paid version.
t0mmyr said:
i was wondering if theres some way to change the sensitivity or distance of the proximity sensor, i notice when my wife was using the phone the screen would turn on and off randomly i guess because of the way she was holding it to her ear, then i started noticing through the corner of my eye that my phone was doing this as well, it must think i've pulled it away from my ear when it senses different cavities in my ear, i'd like to turn it up to an extra 1/2" or so when i do hold the phone to my ear i know for certain it stays off, and when i really do pull it away from my head the screen wakes up. has anyone found the settings for this yet? i'm running juicy rom and my wife has mightyrom
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I'm with t0mmyr on this issue.
I too find that when having been on a call, my screen can end up with started apps, on the programs page, etc.
I too think that a 'tweak' on the proximity sensor will go a long way to fixing this issue. The trick is to find exactly what to tweak and this is where we need a little guru-like guidence.......!!!
Cheers
Jabberoo
theres a few interesting keys in hklm\software\htc\proximity. i wont mess with them. i wouldnt like the screen to turn on every time i pick my phone off a table or something.
The Jack of Clubs said:
theres a few interesting keys in hklm\software\htc\proximity. i wont mess with them. i wouldnt like the screen to turn on every time i pick my phone off a table or something.
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Thx for the heads-up
I looked into them but with no result.
There must surely be a way to 'fiddle' with the range..?
Cheers
Jabberoo
i dont think there is a boost on range. i think the emitter intensity is fixed and would require hardware tinkering to make reflections on object brighter for the receiving sensor.
trevoroni said:
Changescreen has an option under the advanced settings ....
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Actually I played with it a little and realized that it does in fact use the proximty sensor and g sensor. It just seems to bug up some times (or it just might be my device)
Not just yours mine does this as well. I make sure I don't move the phone away from my ear at all but if it is a long call it always seems that either the notification bar or the start button got pressed during the call. It is driving me nuts. I had a program written by someone on XDA for my Fuze that worked awesome called touch in-call screen tweak I want that functionality with the tilt 2
dalavar said:
Not just yours mine does this as well. I make sure I don't move the phone away from my ear at all but if it is a long call it always seems that either the notification bar or the start button got pressed during the call. It is driving me nuts. I had a program written by someone on XDA for my Fuze that worked awesome called touch in-call screen tweak I want that functionality with the tilt 2
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TouchLockPro has InCallTweak built in. See youtube video in the link. And recently also has added ZoomBar unlock. And it is *FREE*
Hi;
While on a call, the screen will close. While still talking I press the side button to open the screen and the call will disconnect.
How do I correct this?
Thank you.
Same question. Its just stupid, how on earth I`m supposed to wake up screen without disconnecting a call ?!
Go to: settings>Accessibility>un-check-power button ends call
what's funny is i'm pretty sure that this setting is not selected out of the box, so you guys must have went and enabled it yourselves!
rbs_uk said:
Same question. Its just stupid, how on earth I`m supposed to wake up screen without disconnecting a call ?!
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I don't know about yours but my SGN seems to have proximity sensor near the speaker and it seems to turn screen on as soon as I take it away from my ear auto-magically It may "lag", but it's fair enough for me...
Mine did the same thing today. I confirmed the accessibility link cited above was not checked. Proximity sensor is irrelevant, I was on a two hour conference call and speaker using speaker phone mode. Screen times out and shuts down on its own, which also shuts off the prox sensor.
Every time I end a call while on a headset, whether bt or wired, and using the phone while talking, the screen shuts off. I don't remember this happening on other phones. Is there a setting for this? If so I can't find it anywhere.
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jeriku said:
Every time I end a call while on a headset, whether bt or wired, and using the phone while talking, the screen shuts off. I don't remember this happening on other phones. Is there a setting for this? If so I can't find it anywhere.
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Can you elaborate a bit more? Does it just time out? Is it off at the end of the call, and you can't make it come back on?
Your phone will use the proximity sensor, when it's within proximity of your face. Aside from that, it will use the set screen timeout settings. If this is a timeout issue, change those settings, under your display options
If this is an issue with the proximity sensor, and the screen not turning back on as the call ends, then simply place your hand over the the sensor and remove it. The screen will turn back on.
I mean if I'm playing a game while on a call with a headset, whether bt or wired, and the call ends the screen turns off. Even though I'm playing a game or browsing, what ever. The screen turns back on fine, just annoying and inconvenient interruption to what ever I'm doing.
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jeriku said:
I mean if I'm playing a game while on a call with a headset, whether bt or wired, and the call ends the screen turns off. Even though I'm playing a game or browsing, what ever. The screen turns back on fine, just annoying and inconvenient interruption to what ever I'm doing.
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Same thing happens to me, but not all the time. Like when I am listening to a message and wants to press 7 to erease it and I find the display does not turn on as it should. I think this could be a bug related to the proximity sensor.
jeriku said:
Every time I end a call while on a headset, whether bt or wired, and using the phone while talking, the screen shuts off. I don't remember this happening on other phones. Is there a setting for this? If so I can't find it anywhere.
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sort of annoying but I just hit the volume keys to get the screen back on...
I guess the most annoying situation, and this happened last night. Using navigator, I took a call on my bt headset, hung up the call and not only did it not return to my nav screen it immediately turned off.
I don't know if this is a bug or a setting, maybe a build.prop thing?
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Still doing it with ICS, I was hoping that something would change.
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jeriku said:
I guess the most annoying situation, and this happened last night. Using navigator, I took a call on my bt headset, hung up the call and not only did it not return to my nav screen it immediately turned off.
I don't know if this is a bug or a setting, maybe a build.prop thing?
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I can't pull up screenshots on my phone while I'm at work but in Application Settings under Development there should be an option to "Stay Awake" while on charger...it comes in handy when using Navigator/Waze. Downside; On GB it tends to overheat the battery but simply pressing the Power/Lock key will override the settings and turn off the screen.
amosconf said:
I can't pull up screenshots on my phone while I'm at work but in Application Settings under Development there should be an option to "Stay Awake" while on charger...it comes in handy when using Navigator/Waze. Downside; On GB it tends to overheat the battery but simply pressing the Power/Lock key will override the settings and turn off the screen.
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That won't fix the problem of the phone going off after a call ends though. Every time a call ends my screen turns off, even of I'm using it during a call.
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Anyone experiencing this? This is really the only that I don't like on the SXI so far. Is there anything in the build.prop that could change this ?
This just ticks me off.
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Looks like I fixed it by adding the following tweak to the build.prop:
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#Disable blackscreen issue
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ro.lge.proximity.delay=25
mot.proximity.delay=25
I had to edit the build.prop through Flashtool, none of the on-device editors would save the changes.
It fixed speaker phone, but not headphone issue.
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jeriku said:
I mean if I'm playing a game while on a call with a headset, whether bt or wired, and the call ends the screen turns off. Even though I'm playing a game or browsing, what ever. The screen turns back on fine, just annoying and inconvenient interruption to what ever I'm doing.
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Can anyone confirm that I'm not the only one with this happening?
I think it happens across the board. Maybe it is not as annoying for people to complaint - myself included. Although it would be nice if there is a fix.
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It was the plastic cover protector, THANK you everyone for posting the problem, such an insignificant thing, but a pain in the ass...
Thanks you , XDA and people
Xperia S LT26i
Johnfromspain said:
It was the plastic cover protector, THANK you everyone for posting the problem, such an insignificant thing, but a pain in the ass...
Thanks you , XDA and people
Xperia S LT26i
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This happens to me, although less with newly flashed JB. I might have to check my plastic protector too...
Note 2 Verizon Rooted. Two weeks ago my phone started this. When ever I make a phone call, the screen cuts off. The problem is it wont come back on until the call has ended. Now if i reach someone this isnt a huge issue, but if I have to deal with an automated system, or get someones voice mail i Have to do a battery pull. Does anyone know what is going on? Please help.
Try to clear data of phone app.
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Same Problem
I had the same problem, I found it was the cover I had on my phone that prevented the phone to go back on during a call.
This is a problem related to the proximity sensor. It's something very hard to clean so I just disabled turn off screen during calls option. Just go to your dialer press menu button then click call settings you should see turn of screen calls option, disable it.
Your cheek probably touch to screen and press random buttons when you're on the phone so remember to turn off your screen by on off button so you dont touch buttons with your cheek.
Hope that solves your problem
edit: I found that sometimes blowing through the speaker makes proximity sensor work correctly for a while. It's not a practical solution though.
Equal1zer said:
This is a problem related to the proximity sensor. It's something very hard to clean so I just disabled turn off screen during calls option. Just go to your dialer press menu button then click call settings you should see turn of screen calls option, disable it.
Your cheek probably touch to screen and press random buttons when you're on the phone so remember to turn off your screen by on off button so you dont touch buttons with your cheek.
Hope that solves your problem
edit: I found that sometimes blowing through the speaker makes proximity sensor work correctly for a while. It's not a practical solution though.
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Thanks for the information everyone! I busted the screen a few months ago and assume that's whats causing it. I just didn't think that was it because it hadn't been a problem until well after I busted it. Ill disable this option and that will take care of it for my needs.
I'm not sure if it's a proximity issue, software, or related to the phone app itself but quite frequently when I'm on a phone call my screen will stay black even if I pull my face away from the phone. Pressing the power button does nothing, double pressing it for the camera shortcut will have the phone vibrate but still black screen. If I place my finger on the fingerprint scanner it vibrates but still black screen. The only way to get the screen to come back on is for the other caller to hang up. It was especially bad when I called my voicemail and couldn't hang up so it was stuck like that until I held the volume up and power buttons to manually reset the phone. Is anyone else having this issue?
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I'm not sure if it's a proximity issue, software, or related to the phone app itself but quite frequently when I'm on a phone call my screen will stay black even if I pull my face away from the phone. Pressing the power button does nothing, double pressing it for the camera shortcut will have the phone vibrate but still black screen. If I place my finger on the fingerprint scanner it vibrates but still black screen. The only way to get the screen to come back on is for the other caller to hang up. It was especially bad when I called my voicemail and couldn't hang up so it was stuck like that until I held the volume up and power buttons to manually reset the phone. Is anyone else having this issue?
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run it on safemode and see if it still happens, if not then there could be an app messing with the experience.. if still doenst turn on while on call on safemode, then call support.
Are u using immersive mode?
I've read that some experienced this after an update to the phone app. I had this problem and it turned out something was wrong with the proximity sensor. I downloaded an app to test the phones sensors and it always said near for the proximity sensor. Had an RMA done on it
I am having the same issue...
Funny thing, i can wake my screen well when I'm calling with my Bluetooth device (Alpine player). But if I'm using the phone, the screen stays dead.
They should at least give us an update that would let us to wake the screen manually.
You guys need to give more detail like are you stock, rooted, modded? Something to go off of
Shadowblade19 said:
I'm not sure if it's a proximity issue, software, or related to the phone app itself but quite frequently when I'm on a phone call my screen will stay black even if I pull my face away from the phone. Pressing the power button does nothing, double pressing it for the camera shortcut will have the phone vibrate but still black screen. If I place my finger on the fingerprint scanner it vibrates but still black screen. The only way to get the screen to come back on is for the other caller to hang up. It was especially bad when I called my voicemail and couldn't hang up so it was stuck like that until I held the volume up and power buttons to manually reset the phone. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Here is what you do... Remove your screen protector and throw it away. Then, buy one with a proper cutout for the proximity sensor.
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mackentosh said:
You guys need to give more detail like are you stock, rooted, modded? Something to go off of
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I'm stock with no screen protector just an Incipio dual pro case. I've taken the case off and tried cleaning the phone but the still persists without the case on. I've also tried booting into safe mode and still the same problem occurs. At least now I've went into the settings and turned on power button ends call so I can hang up now. Talked with google support and sent them a bug report awaiting their response.
hatdrc said:
I've read that some experienced this after an update to the phone app. I had this problem and it turned out something was wrong with the proximity sensor. I downloaded an app to test the phones sensors and it always said near for the proximity sensor. Had an RMA done on it
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What app did you use? I'll try it out.
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What app did you use? I'll try it out.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asd.vector.sensor
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asd.vector.sensor
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Yep mines saying NEAR for the proximity sensor. Guess I'm going to wait on the answer from Google support and RMA the device too. It's weird because I don't have any screen protector or anything to block the sensor and the proximity sensor was fine for the first 2 months.
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Yep mines saying NEAR for the proximity sensor. Guess I'm going to wait on the answer from Google support and RMA the device too. It's weird because I don't have any screen protector or anything to block the sensor and the proximity sensor was fine for the first 2 months.
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Mine too. I had no case or screen protector on it. They had me send a bug report first.
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Mine too. I had no case or screen protector on it. They had me send a bug report first.
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Yeah I already sent them a bug report last night. Thanks for all the help appreciate it.
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