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Eic 4g Touch Bugs Thread

I'm seeing many users notice different little bugs with the phone (me included) and instead of having multiple threads about it, maybe we can all post it in one place where later the devs can see it and work on them once the phone is rooted etc.. Good idea/bad idea? I come from an Evo 4g with Sense rom so I wonder how many of these might not really be "bugs" but just a different user experience.
I'll start..
Accu weather app not updating location automatically
apk files downloaded from the computer and then transferred to phone are not showing up (unknown sources, usb debugging checked)
No function when touching the clock widget. It does not launch me to alarm, world clock, time etc menu. Maybe this is just a touchwiz thing as I mentioned above, I come from a sense rom.
So far those are the ones on top of my head. As I use the phone more, I'm sure I'll spot more (hope not!).
Anyone else?

Phone dialer issues
I have to reboot my phone from time to time to make a call.
It just says call ended when i try to call out.
When i reboot it works fine for a few hours.

Mentioned above plus the following so far (except reboot for calling issue):
No landscape mode using TW (auto-rotate enabled)
Red LED only available notification color (REALLY?!)

Skype video calling is upside down when using in portrait mode.
Also, phone call is automatically in Speaker mode when calling after making a Skype video call.

*Occasional phone FREEZES. As in, one minute it is okay, and the next minute, you have to do a battery pull. Happened twice since I got it on launch day.
*Browser closing for no reason. Happened 4 times since launch day.
*When plugged in with Samsung charger, phone's screen will act real glitchy
*SWYPE does not work properly, no matter the settings. Have to type normally.
That's all the software bugs I've experienced. Hardware-wise, there are reports of problems with data, 3G, 4G, and WIFI....I haven't seen any word on Bluetooth yet.

Journeyjeans said:
*Occasional phone FREEZES. As in, one minute it is okay, and the next minute, you have to do a battery pull. Happened twice since I got it on launch day.
*Browser closing for no reason. Happened 4 times since launch day.
*When plugged in with Samsung charger, phone's screen will act real glitchy
*SWYPE does not work properly, no matter the settings. Have to type normally.
That's all the software bugs I've experienced. Hardware-wise, there are reports of problems with data, 3G, 4G, and WIFI....I haven't seen any word on Bluetooth yet.
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Go exchange your phone -- sounds like a lemon. No other real complaints about freezing or auto-closing apps.

Erislover said:
Go exchange your phone -- sounds like a lemon. No other real complaints about freezing or auto-closing apps.
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Actually, other's have experienced auto-closing apps and freezing. It's in a thread around here or at sprintusers.com, I forget which.

For the first three days I couldn't get data while roaming though the proper settings were checked. Sprint customer care reset my phone and after an hour of waiting it works.
All else its great (except for the above oddities with Touch Wiz) though I haven't checked GPS after encrypting the device.
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humdrum2009 said:
I have to reboot my phone from time to time to make a call.
It just says call ended when i try to call out.
When i reboot it works fine for a few hours.
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Can you elaborate on this issue?
Also, anyone else having similar issues, please chime in.
Are you seeing a circle with a slash through it (no service) when this happens?
Can you receive calls when this happens?
Do you lose 4G or WiFi? Or is it just Voice/3G?
Does it seem to happen sometime after making a call/text (~30min), or any other pattern you've noticed?
Are you rooted?
If yes, what kernel (zedomax or tanimn/shabbypenguin - trying to narrow down an issue with one of the current root kernels)?

Exchange Appt. Notification Bug
I have had multiple reminders pop up for from my Exchange calendar and i can't seem to dismiss or snooze them from the notification bar. The snooze and dismiss buttons are available but are non responsive. The only way I can get rid of the notification is with the "Clear" button which is for all notifications. Has anyone else noticed this?

Journeyjeans said:
*SWYPE does not work properly, no matter the settings. Have to type normally.
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I know this may sound silly, and you may have already checked this, but check your language settings. I've read about some owners that were having problems with Swype discovered that their language was set to Spanish.
Also, on the LED notifications only being Red, I've been playing with an App called Light Flow. I've at least been able to change the notification colors to Blue using this App. Also, the App lets you use "White" as a color, which still shows a Red light, but blinks very fast if some of you prefer a faster blinking light.

I have had the roaming data issue as well. It does eventually work for me though, but on once occasion it took 10 minutes before data turned on after the roaming started. I will try calling Sprint as well.
Wifi signal is bad.. but speedtest says otherwise. I think the issue is with the amount of bars displayed and not the actual signal. I was standing 5 fee fromt he router and still didn't have full bars.

Ive been having problems today with dropping data connection. Toggling 4G off and on seems to restore it even in no 4G areas. I guess it resets the radio or something?

MadFlava said:
Ive been having problems today with dropping data connection. Toggling 4G off and on seems to restore it even in no 4G areas. I guess it resets the radio or something?
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Try profile and prl update...
My data did cut in and out till i did the normal sprint updates
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Just got this phone friday. So far the only bugs I am experiencing are roaming in places my evo got coverage and the security draw pattern having a mind of its own making it very hard to unlock the screen. Also the wifi reception is noticeably weaker than my evo

nate420 said:
Try profile and prl update...
My data did cut in and out till i did the normal sprint updates
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA App
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Ive done that already and it didnt help. Thanks, tho.

Luckily, no freezes or crashes here (knock on wood).
what i HAVE noticed is the rotate bug, for instance
when rotating the phone for texting or browsing, you have to kind of
bring it up to your chest @ about a 90 degree angle in order for it to rotate.
calibrated it all correctly & i still have to do that.
this is my first phone from the Epic/Galaxy company so im not sure if that was a problem in the original Epic 4g (non-touch) but it sure is kind of annoying :/
hopefully the dev's can tweak the gyro or SOMETHING.

Poor Wifi/3g Signal
Noticed lower bars on both wifi and 3g...when in same spot on my Evo 4g I had more...might be just how many bars its displaying and not the actual signal...but not for sure...actually went into roaming a few times when with my Evo 4g I never did (even with roaming was set to automatic...now I have it set to sprint only)

Hello. Has anyone tried updating through Kies? I tried and it says that this version of software cannot be updated. I just got my phone today. I did have problems installing the drivers. After I let it install say one or two drivers, one would error out. Once I unplugged it a few times and then plugged it back it, all of the drivers installed.
I hope this doesn't mean that Samsung is not going to upgrade to ICS or else I am taking this back. I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" and it won't allow updating with rooting. Thanks for any input and have a great day/night!

analyst28 said:
I have had multiple reminders pop up for from my Exchange calendar and i can't seem to dismiss or snooze them from the notification bar. The snooze and dismiss buttons are available but are non responsive. The only way I can get rid of the notification is with the "Clear" button which is for all notifications. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I noticed this too.
you have to check the check boxes next to the calender item. This is deceptive because the boxes have checks in them. But they should be green and not grey.
hope that helps

Verizon Marshmallow Location Bug

Anyone noticing the location GPS is funky? I typically turn my GPS off when not in use and I am finding that when using the PullDown toggle, the annoying Location Icon/Notification gets stuck on, and other times won't come on after its been off.
The only way to fix it is to turn it off and reboot, or turn it on and reboot. But after it gets toggles, it gets screwy again.
I haven't done much testing yet to see if it is just the icon or actually the GPS failing to toggle. Also I am wondering if going through settings to toggle is a work around.
I am out of town for work but wanted to quickly throw it out there to see if anyone others experience this weird behavior. I don't have time this week to really sit down and play with it, so a quick fix (if available) is known.

+1 on this. Just noticed the other day when I had to navigate to a party. I arrived and turned off location and it was still stuck in notification tray. Think it went away eventually, but I didn't have time to reboot so not sure what happened. Will keep an eye on it next time though.
Also, noticed the phone has trouble switching from 1x back to 4g. Has to use airplane mode to cycle the radio.

Yea I noticed that too. Again I am traveling and normally have GPS off and only turn it on when I actually launch Google Maps.
I was listening to Pandora mostly with no issues on my 8hr drive but twice, I think, I had to toggle airplane mode to get back data.
The Location notification is ridiculous. I mean its stupidly annoying already but now its getting stuck.

player911 said:
Yea I noticed that too. Again I am traveling and normally have GPS off and only turn it on when I actually launch Google Maps.
I was listening to Pandora mostly with no issues on my 8hr drive but twice, I think, I had to toggle airplane mode to get back data.
The Location notification is ridiculous. I mean its stupidly annoying already but now its getting stuck.
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Just chiming in. I haven't noticed these problems. Then again I've only been on MM for 5 days now.

I get the location icon stuck in the tray as well. Reboot is the only cure.
New Wifi lag is the biggest problem for me on MM.

phonepie said:
Just chiming in. I haven't noticed these problems. Then again I've only been on MM for 5 days now.
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You really only notice it if you turn off Location, the little PIN notification gets stuck and doesn't go away on the status bar and notification that says Location on or something.
Pretty annoying.
Also my wifi just randomly stops working. I have to disconnect, reconnect and it starts again. Different topic though.

player911 said:
You really only notice it if you turn off Location, the little PIN notification gets stuck and doesn't go away on the status bar and notification that says Location on or something.
Pretty annoying.
Also my wifi just randomly stops working. I have to disconnect, reconnect and it starts again. Different topic though.
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Ah ok, I hadn't had that problem. As of last night I downgraded and then rooted and removed bloatware. So doubt I'll see them problems. Though I am facing a few minor ones mainly with the all apps dual window mod. But like you said that's a different topic. Main reasons I downgraded was of course because I like full control over something I own. But wanted the 60fps video recording which I'm pretty sure we can all agree should have been included with the G4. I also finally found a nice work around for enabling silent mode with the actual volume button since the xposed module with true silent didn't work for the G4. Sorry I'm getting off topic here. But hope you find a fix.

Yea I was good with lollipop. Marshmallow hasn't included anything except bugs. I resisted the upgrade for a while but I was not rooted and the System Update popping up constantly was drivingme crazy.

A6 fixed a few annoying bugs for me but brought others.
The location notification getting stuck can happen even with location on, I never turn mine off.
Biggest problem for me WiFi disconnecting at 15%, and needing a reboot to reconnect.

Yea the location notification does get stuck regardless if turned off or not.
I ended up getting rid of the G4 because of the problems. (Qi Charging, wifi disconnects, etc).

Any of you install 7.1.1?

I've had the notification for a bit about the update, and I held off for a little bit awaiting to see initial reviews of overall stability of the build, changes, etc.. Seems like nobody has bothered with it from the looks of it lol.
So I'm just curious if there are any users of 7.1.1 and about their overall experience with the preview.

Using 7.1 since release. Works good so far. I have just seen one problem: Sometimes sound does not work at all until I reboot my device. Everything else seems working fine.

tux95 said:
Using 7.1 since release. Works good so far. I have just seen one problem: Sometimes sound does not work at all until I reboot my device. Everything else seems working fine.
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Hmmmm. That'd be annoying but minor. How's your battery life seem?

At the end of the day I have mostly about 30% left. I use it in university and for movies. It is like android 7. 0 in my opinion.

Same issue with sound loss. Very annoying as I use my pixel c as radio alarm. You guessed right, it's averaging about 50:50 so far. I wonder if the pixel phones have this issue, but I haven't seen any out cry and will assume not.
I'm also experiencing poor WiFi connectivity that requires frequent restarts. Whilst I know many people had this with the early builds (both soft and hard) is not something I had to deal with much. Since installing 7.1.1 I'd say it's averaging once a day.
This is what I feared when they announced that it was in beta for all but the Pixel phones: a semi-broken and half-hearted approach for all but those coming from Apple. It's pretty poor second class citizenship with El goog these days. I'm not sure I'll be buying any more of 'their' devices.

I do not know how Google broke WiFi, it is just a minor update.
Often I try to browse "You are offline"
The device sees access points but will not connect, with a device that only can communicate with WiFi this is kind of a big deal.
Reboot the device connects to access points.

Not seen any wifi problems.

kjwaugh said:
Not seen any wifi problems.
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I am not the only person complaining.
1) Leave it on my home access point, maybe in day get no bars.
2) Turn off/on WiFi full bars, but say connecting..... times out and does not connect
3) Press the On/off button restart
4) Works find for maybe another day
My Pixel C had zero issue now I got a WiFi but on the "Beta"

So 7.1 still beta right? I need to be on the beta channel to get it?

no, final is out, but has not rolled out everywhere yet.

I had the sound issue on both MM and N, but I haven't had it on the stable release of N yet.

Verizon S8+ Bugs and Issues

Hi everyone,
I have 2 Galaxy S8+ from Verizon and here are my issues:
Past issues:
One of them did not come with the Galaxy Apps store (Not the plays store), and that phone also experienced the DQA issue
Current issues:
If I turn on Fingerprint gestures, the fingerprint sensor will stop working, this was an issue I had from the day I got the phone and has continued even through the updates. Here's a thread I made about it a while ago : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/fingerprint-sensor-t3595614
My internal speaker has detached, or at least I think that is the issue, as sometimes when I am in a phone call and shake the phone just a little bit, it will either start making a weird buzz sound or completely cut off the sound. Shaking it again will fix it, that's why I think it's a physical issue. I haven't dropped my phone and just in case I ever do, I have a case and a screen protector on it, and neither of them (phone, case, screen protector) have any damage marks on them.
The Biggest Issue: Currently this is the most annoying bug I am experiencing is that whenever I go to lock screen and security in the setting app, it crashes the settings app. I also can't use the search function in the settings app, as it crashes the app withing a few seconds. The lock screen and security is the only menu in which I experience this, I am 99% sure this is due to me turning on Secure startup. I had it turned on a few days after I got the phone and it worked great, I had to turn it off once, about a month ago in order to get a quicker boot. After that I was experiencing issues turning it back on (meaning I turned it on, rebooted the phone and it would not work) , after some persistence, I was able to get it to work and it has worked and still works.
One thing to mention is that I had done the most recent system update, I am not sure this issue was caused by at, since the inability so search in the setting menu has happened prior to the latest update.
I have tried everything other than a full factory reset (wiping all cache, wiping apps cache, reset setting, reset network settings), which I refuse to do, It is absolutely unacceptable for me to pay this much for this phone and have so many issues with it, I have factory resetted my phone (Samsung's recommendation) in order to fix the first issue listed above, multiple times and it did not work.
At this point I really don't know what to do, Samsung support has been useless in this, I don't wish to replace my phone right now as I need it to much to even give up for one day, If anyone has any advice/fix other than factory resetting, I'll happily try it.
Thank you,
GGgamer16

Sounds like a factory reset is needed. I just tried all you mentioned with zero problems on the newest update w/ navbar options and experienced none of that. Speaker problem is most likely hardware related.

Anyone had any luck getting rid of the wifi disconnect? The issue where wifi disconnects showing a ! next to the wifi symbol on the status bar?

*Hooligan* said:
Anyone had any luck getting rid of the wifi disconnect? The issue where wifi disconnects showing a ! next to the wifi symbol on the status bar?
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You try changing your WiFi channel? Using 5ghz or 2.5ghz? I use Wifi 100% of the time I'm home and never have any issues with disconnects.

brandonc0526 said:
You try changing your WiFi channel? Using 5ghz or 2.5ghz? I use Wifi 100% of the time I'm home and never have any issues with disconnects.
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Yeah I have tried changing channels. It didn't matter. I'm on 2.4 GHz.

I found a possible fix from another forum. I changed my wifi encryption from wpa2 AES/tkip to wpa2 tkip only last night and was rock solid after that point. I didn't have any more wifi issues... Just wanted to mention this change for other people. I usually got 5+disconnects every night. I'm gonna try just the AES option tonight and see how it acts.

Verizon: Ever since update last week for my Note 10+, the Message+ app has issues

Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ ... issue is occurring on my wife's phone as well as mine.
I installed the update last week (and then another one late last night). I used Message+ for texting and before whenever I got a text the phone would wake and go to the lock screen and show a preview of the text. Now it just stays on the Always On Display (A.O.D.) screen and only shows the little text icon on the A.O.D.
Also, edge lighting no longer works on the A.O.D. for some apps. Specifically the Message+ app. It worked before this update and now it wont show up when the phone is off/on the A.O.D. screen. It definitely worked before the update.............
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the apps. No fix. I even did a full factory default reset and that did nothing either.......

May be the apps, not optimized for android 10, I am waiting for all these issues to be ironed out before updating

winol said:
May be the apps, not optimized for android 10, I am waiting for all these issues to be ironed out before updating
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It's been just over 3 weeks now and this issue is still persistent. Unable to find any help online and Verizon people are beyond useless. Ugh...

winol said:
May be the apps, not optimized for android 10, I am waiting for all these issues to be ironed out before updating
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Anyone with any insight on this issue?

hbk_seanmichael said:
Anyone with any insight on this issue?
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Does it work with other messaging apps? As for just the icon showing; have you looked at the information being shown on the lock screen and aod? You can edit what is shown detailed, icon only, etc.

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Does it work with other messaging apps? As for just the icon showing; have you looked at the information being shown on the lock screen and aod? You can edit what is shown detailed, icon only, etc.
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Snapchat works fine. Groupme doesnt work neither does gmail. Those I dont care about really it just the text app not working is annoying as hell. I have the lock screen showing "detailed". I dont think there is a "detailed" option for the AOD though? It just shows the icon.
I can live without the edge lighting on AOD for texts but for it not to wake the screen and show me the preview on the lock screen is extremely annoying especially since it has always worked just fine.
I already did a factory reset as well.

hbk_seanmichael said:
Snapchat works fine. Groupme doesnt work neither does gmail. Those I dont care about really it just the text app not working is annoying as hell. I have the lock screen showing "detailed". I dont think there is a "detailed" option for the AOD though? It just shows the icon.
I can live without the edge lighting on AOD for texts but for it not to wake the screen and show me the preview on the lock screen is extremely annoying especially since it has always worked just fine.
I already did a factory reset as well.
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It sounds like it's the app. I don't use the edge lighting. Nor do I use the AOD. However I've never had a notification issue. Personally I use Google messages due to the ability of having RCS have you gone into the notifications settings and changed the sound per app? Maybe made sure nothing was turned off. Also check to make sure those apps aren't getting frozen under device care.

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It sounds like it's the app. I don't use the edge lighting. Nor do I use the AOD. However I've never had a notification issue. Personally I use Google messages due to the ability of having RCS have you gone into the notifications settings and changed the sound per app? Maybe made sure nothing was turned off. Also check to make sure those apps aren't getting frozen under device care.
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Two months later and Still having this issue. Edge lighting works when the phone screen is on but if it's off then it doesnt work for any app. I even switched to google messages and still nothing.

hbk_seanmichael said:
Two months later and Still having this issue. Edge lighting works when the phone screen is on but if it's off then it doesnt work for any app. I even switched to google messages and still nothing.
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Yeah I don't have an answer for you. I haven't had those issues. And don't know what to do help other then a completely fresh set up and see if it helps. If it doesn't. I'd try flashing the software on the phone again through Odin.