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Using Desire for months and everything prefect except one thing. Sometimes I need to press the button on the screen after some system message which need to be heard first. When I put the screen on my ear then its off. I can use the headphone sometimes but not always. I believe its because of the sensing function but cant find the place to turn it off. Could anyone who can tell me how to keep screen on when answering the call? Thanks in advance.
The screen goes off due to the proximity sensor, but it should be back on again when you take the phone away from your ear.
This definitely works for me, though I can imagine that if you have your hand close to the proximity sensor it could cause problems.
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Dave
I tried again and notice that, sometimes the screen can come back but after long time waiting, but in most case it cant. I am not sure the position where the sensor located. I am using the zagg invisible shield screen cover and not sure if that caused the error of the sensor. Anyhow, is here a place to turn this face sensing function off?
PS, after I cleaned the screen cover then it seems get better response time to show the screen after move the phone away from my face. But still not rapidly as normal phone with keyboard and influence the using experience. So if there was a option to turn this face sensing feature off then it could be better.
I found this link where some one who had the same issue found it was related to their Zagg protector, but on the same thread there are others who have had no such problems.
The proximity sensor is in the top left of the screen, within the black border. circles - see here.
Regards,
Dave
Is there anyway to turn off the proximity sensor or just add like a 3 second delay for it to turn off the screen.
I know this sounds like a stupid question, but at work I need to call in checks over a 1 800 number and enter in the numbers on the check. The waiting for the screen to come back on after I listen to the prompts is getting on my nerves.
And putting it on speaker phone, only half fixes my frustration. The 1 800 numbers also have the option where you can just say the numbers, and it will keep hearing ambient noise and screw everything up, then I have to start all over
Quick answer, flash a Rom that doesn't have sense. I think that will work as a temporary solution.
Good luck
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How would that fix it? The proximity sensor is a piece of hardware on the phone not software. Also for a ASOP rom wouldn't they still need to use the evo's drivers for it's hardware thus still including the proximity sensor.
U know its not a software solution but why not use a Bluetooth or some headphones with a microphone. You could leave the phone flat the whole time
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Got a bit of a weird problem, all of a sudden my DHD keeps on activating the speaker phone every time i answer a call on it.
It never used to do this and i'm bamboozled by what's causing this. I've tried turning off the flip over phone to activate speaker mode and it's still doing this.
Looked through all the settings with no clue what has changed.
Tested it 6 times today using the house phone and it activates if you slide to answer or press the green answer button so it's not like i'm hitting it accidentally.
HELP!
same here..googling for an answer now :S
found something? got the same problem
My HTC Inspire started doing the same thing today. Kinda weird, as i haven't changed any setting or added / removed anything for a few days
You may have flip for speaker switched on. Go to Settings>Sound and then under Incoming Calls uncheck the option for Flip for Speaker.
Did you make your DHD wet somehow?
I pour some coke on my Desire and it started to activate the speaker for calls as default. I have started to use Sanity app from Market to force it not to use speaker.
After a few days I have removed the app and everything is fine since then. The coke has been dried out I guess.
Try Sanity.
just a question, but do u have the 'callrecorder' app?
or anything like that?
i had a similiar problem, in my case it was made by car mode.
the phone "knows" that is plugged in a car dock cause it makes a intentional short in micro usb port... one of the features of car mode is always turn on speaker.
sometimes that short happens even without car dock (that was my case).
i solve it by cleaning the port with a really tiny pin and isopropyl alcohol... you can test it by touching a pin in some contacts of the port...
thiagodark said:
i had a similiar problem, in my case it was made by car mode.
the phone "knows" that is plugged in a car dock cause it makes a intentional short in micro usb port... one of the features of car mode is always turn on speaker.
sometimes that short happens even without car dock (that was my case).
i solve it by cleaning the port with a really tiny pin and isopropyl alcohol... you can test it by touching a pin in some contacts of the port...
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Yes I'm having a similar issue. Its driving me crazy! So are you sure its ok to clean the port with a pin even if the phone is still on?
ogezzy29 said:
Yes I'm having a similar issue. Its driving me crazy! So are you sure its ok to clean the port with a pin even if the phone is still on?
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and now im having this problem.......
maybe some moisture ?
Did you try to calibrate your G-Sensors? they might be wrong and triggering the flip to speaker phone function.
Hi I had this problem too and found it was an app called power amp I had installed on my dhd! After uninstalling it the speaker issues stopped! Hope this helps
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Anyone fix this yet cos my dhd has just started this, I've turned off the car panel thing and I've cleaned all the fluff out of the USB port but it's still on speaker phone. It seems to have started after I charged it up in my van with a car charger. Any idea's cos this is doing my nut in.
Have the same problem. Rebooting the phone fixes it for me. The problem starts again every time I turn the speaker on.
Evil-Dragon said:
Got a bit of a weird problem, all of a sudden my DHD keeps on activating the speaker phone every time i answer a call on it.
It never used to do this and i'm bamboozled by what's causing this. I've tried turning off the flip over phone to activate speaker mode and it's still doing this.
Looked through all the settings with no clue what has changed.
Tested it 6 times today using the house phone and it activates if you slide to answer or press the green answer button so it's not like i'm hitting it accidentally.
HELP!
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I think it's not a hardware fault or software issue, the phone's screen automatically lock when you place the phone near the ear, they use proximity sensor for auto turn off the screen. When something block the sensor signals it turns the screen off. But sometimes when we call someone and if our head or ear not close enough to block those signals display won't turn off and buttons are remain active, so if our face touch the screen (loud speaker button) it turns on the loud speaker. That's what happen I guess, because it happen also for me most of the time
Evil-Dragon said:
Got a bit of a weird problem, all of a sudden my DHD keeps on activating the speaker phone every time i answer a call on it.
It never used to do this and i'm bamboozled by what's causing this. I've tried turning off the flip over phone to activate speaker mode and it's still doing this.
Looked through all the settings with no clue what has changed.
Tested it 6 times today using the house phone and it activates if you slide to answer or press the green answer button so it's not like i'm hitting it accidentally.
HELP!
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Hi.
I had the same problem. I found out that I had the HTC navigation app running in the background. This made the phone turn on the speaker on incoming calls.
J
do you know how to uninstall this stupid app its driving me mad, keeps starting up automatically the navigation head wrecking to say the least
Hi guys,
Did any body nanaged go get this function working. Even though the appropriate setting is ticked I can't get the the phone light up when switched off!
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I hope ur not turning the phone off while testing this function. .. The screen had to be locked. ..
Anyway. .. You have to swipe your hand over the light sensor while screen is off
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Place the phone on flat surface after locking it.
Now swipe your hand over your phone screen from top to bottom without touching the screen.
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Just hover your hands over the light sensor, but you have to do it kind of slowly and also it response at least 1s after you have hovered your hand over your phone. It's not really that useful of a function, more of a gimmick.
I do want to ask, do these motion functions really drain the battery a lot? As this means the motion sensor is always on.
juliano76 said:
Hi guys,
Did any body nanaged go get this function working. Even though the appropriate setting is ticked I can't get the the phone light up when switched off!
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i cant seem to get it working neither.... it only works in the quick glance motion tutorial... very weird. am i missing some other settings? motion is on, quick glance ticked, screen lock is setup, anything else??
Wolf1203 said:
i cant seem to get it working neither.... it only works in the quick glance motion tutorial... very weird. am i missing some other settings? motion is on, quick glance ticked, screen lock is setup, anything else??
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Its a cr*p feature -- or at least the implementation is. You need to sort of hover or cup your hand over the sensors and move it away slowly. Then sometimes it 'works', which means if you do it right about a second or two later the screen slowly wakes up and shows some info. All this takes 4-5 seconds, in which time you could have quickly switched the screen on and off anyways in lesser time.
Gimmick, as someone has pointed out above.
Not only your hand, but anything that cover the light sensor.
Try to calibrate the gyroscope
Wolf1203 said:
i cant seem to get it working neither.... it only works in the quick glance motion tutorial... very weird. am i missing some other settings? motion is on, quick glance ticked, screen lock is setup, anything else??
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Hi, this is my first post here.
Please try to calibrate your gyroscope
To do this go to Advance settings and calibrate it.
I have question too about this QUICK glance (but actually slow glance)
I like this to use to check the time specially during night.
But it is really not quick when I use mine and my friend sister told me that hers is fast.
Does somebody know how to do it make it fast?
kind of a useless feature IMO. doesn't display much in the quick glance screen. much easier to just press the home key.
Yeah, ur right the home button is faster. But I dont believe this is crap feature, it depends in situation. In my side I use this glance feature during night and wake up to check the time not hurting the eye for glare. And in theater also you can use this to check the time, it is really respectfull if you try not to distract others inside the theater.
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I think it's useful for checking the time at night.
I just quickly pass my hand over the front and a second later time is illuminated for a few seconds
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guys, it works fine. just hover your hand in front of the sensor just in and out just like that all in less than1 second for me. it works everytime perfectly. very convenient. can someone confirm if this drains massive amounts of battery or negligible.
After trying the feature several times -- during which it did not work -- I then went in and did the gyroscope calibration. Then went back in, turned Motion on, and turned Quick Glance on. Now it works.
It was working for me up until last week, now my light sensor and or my proximity sensor seem to have stopped working all together. I am unable to get it to work at all. Is there any way to increase the light sensor sensitivity?
Works fine here.
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It works just fine, but my problem is I like to have a screen timeout of 10 minutes, and manually turn my phone off when I want. Half the time I would click it off and set it down, it would immediately wake back up because my hand was over/near the sensor as I set it down.
Works perfect here whatever screen timeout I have set.
Remember that the phone had to be perfectly still and possibly on a level surface for it to work.
Regarding using battery I've read that the n2 has a slower processor dedicated to the motion features do doesn't fire up the main processor when using these features.
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This feature is ok, but it's something a lot of people can live without. It'd be more impressive for us if Samsung extended this to other controls in their main apps, such as allowing this gesture when you receive a call. Wave your hand over the phone and it'll automatically pick up the call in speakphone mode. The Pantech Sky Vega had this feature when it launched last year and something like this is super useful if you're working with your hands (getting them dirty).
http://youtu.be/dG8tfaJswuY
It works for me to.
It also works for the flip cover. So when I just open the cover the glance appears then swipe the screen to unlock..no hard buttons to push
The question though.
I how can we tell if it does drain the battery.?
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I looked around quite a bit, but couldn't find anything on this. I just got the 360 and I've noticed that I have to get out of the dimmed mode in order for the watch to accept voice commands. Also, Even though I have the ambient mode on and screen always on in the app settings the display still turns off after a while.
Anybody else having trouble getting voice activation to work fluidly?
SoCmodder said:
I looked around quite a bit, but couldn't find anything on this. I just got the 360 and I've noticed that I have to get out of the dimmed mode in order for the watch to accept voice commands. Also, Even though I have the ambient mode on and screen always on in the app settings the display still turns off after a while.
Anybody else having trouble getting voice activation to work fluidly?
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Voice activation seemed kind of buggy with ambient mode on, many times it would not turn on. In non ambient mode it was pretty rock solid.
spinedoc said:
Voice activation seemed kind of buggy with ambient mode on, many times it would not turn on. In non ambient mode it was pretty rock solid.
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Awesome thanks, I'll give that a try
I'm pretty sure it isn't suppose to work with the screen dimmed. The watch should brighten as you move it to your face.
GTiceman said:
I'm pretty sure it isn't suppose to work with the screen dimmed. The watch should brighten as you move it to your face.
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It does brighten when I move it, but with the ambient mode on, I sometimes have to do a little more than just move it to get it to brighten. I left it dimmed and screamed "ok google" at it like 4 times with no response. lol
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It does brighten when I move it, but with the ambient mode on, I sometimes have to do a little more than just move it to get it to brighten. I left it dimmed and screamed "ok google" at it like 4 times with no response. lol
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Well ambient is a three step system. Black when at your side or little movement. Ambient when slightly larger movements. Fill on and "okay Google" active when a move defined movement toward your head/midsection.