I have had some weird problems with my back and menu keys the last week or so. I have searched quite a bit but have not found anything that describes my problem. Lots of similar stuff, but nothing that really fits.
Now to the description of my problem:
After a seemingly random time after booting (~2min-2days) the phone's back and menu keys stop working. The gestures for back and menu with the S-Pen also stop working at the same time, and virtual back and menu keys stop working as well.
A reboot (or hot reboot) fixes the problem or not depending on the app used to hot reboot ("Rebooter (fast reboot)" from 'SmartUX' does not fix the problem, but "Reebooter" from 'davidjr621' does).
I have the felling that wiping the Dalvik Cache and the Cache partition has increased the time between the occurance of the problem, but since the time was very variable to begin with, I am not 100% sure about that.
Iam currently running OmegaROM v7.4, but I had the problem before upgading from v7.2.
Does someone have an idea how I can identify the source of the problem?
To me it looks like a weird software problem, like some process that is ment to handle the signals stopped working but is seemingly still runnig, since killing everything (Hot Reboot) solvesthe problem. But that is just speculation, since I don't know how exactly the back and menu key keypresses are handled in Android.
Any help would be apprciated. Places to look for clues or any ideas about what might be causing this.
The problem occurs more often when I switch from mobile data to WiFi or back, but not every time.
I will try to see if I find somethig in logcat givig any clues...
I'm sure you know that back and menu keys are temporarily disabled when you put your S-Pen near screen.
Sent from my GT-N7100
Yes, but the gestures with the pen should still work, they don't when I am having this problem.
It occurs with the pen docked as well.
I did a full wipe, including the "Internal SD-Card", and flashed OmegaROM v8.0. I am hoping that this weird problem is gone now.
By now I am sure the full wipe solved the prblem.
Just in case someone with the same problem stumbles upon this thread.
Hi Everyone,
I sometimes have this issue, I don´t know if it´s a hardware or software problem, as you can see in the picture (on top to the left) seems like pixels die for a short period of time.
It happened before with ICS, but now with JB it happens more often. It only goes with a reboot or sometimes it just goes away.
Please, let me know if there´s anything I can do about it.
Regards.
FA
If these were dead pixels they wouldn't show on a screenshot.
Can't help you any further but it's definitely not your screen.
Looks like one of those Small Apps automagically launching, freezing and staying on top. Do you have any unusual apps installed?
It's weird, sometimes happens with games, with a phone call, camera, etc... I haven't identified any particular app that causes this.
I have tried uninstalling some apps that show notifications on that area but it doesn't work.
You can be sure those aren't bad pixels though.
If it's happening often and you can't get rid of it, just create a backup and re-flash the phone
I just realized that it's a messy app: SwypePad
As soon as I stopped it, this problem is gone.
Thanks for your comments.
Having a bit of an issue with the auto rotation on my OP3 where the screen snaps back into portrait after being rotated either by me or by an app, then locks the device. (if the lockscreen is activated) most apps respond by crashing once this happens.
I've dug all through my settings and come up empty on finding something that could be responsible. So I'm thinking it must be an app, or Xposed module, but again dug through everyone's who could possibly have setting that could do it, again came up empty.
So I'm really frustrated by now and wondering if anyone else has seen behavior like this, or knows what could be the cause.
I'm on the Resurrection Remix OS and as mentioned Xposed is installed. I'd be happy to post a txt of all my apps if someone is interested.
Thanks in advance, Idk what else to do but wipe it.
So figured I'd at least ask you guys before I do, just in case.
(Edit)
Guess I can add no recents menu to the list of effected. Plus now that I have that "on button push" ability to trigger this, I see it's actually resetting the system UI. It seems to crash then reload immediately, triggering the screen back to portrait and the system bar up top to redisplay (usually hidden).
I see a factory reset in my near future...
Well that's got to be a first, seems all I had to do to fix it was threaten to wipe it and it fixed its self!?
Seriously I haven't done anything since I posted this at lunch today, except start a Titanium backup, (which is still running) and as soon as I get home ready to delete it, I opened it up to a landscape view that wasn't durping out. How bazaar... Not sure now if I can trust it to behave or maybe I should wipe it anyway to be sure...
Sometimes, not always, when I restart my phone, things get a little crazy and somehow they must be all related. It happens as often as approx once a week. What happens is the following things:
1- I get an email from Where's My Droid that my SIM card or phone number has changed
2- Network-provided time zone changes to Central European Summertime
3- Wifi calling is turned off (however this doesn't normally stay on for some reason)
4- Visual voicemail in the phone app is missing despite still being turned on
5 - APN is not selected (the circle next to Verizon is empty aka does not have the blue dot in it)
I am on 7.1.2 and rooted. Does this happen to anyone else and is there any fix? What could be the cause?
Edit: I doubt this is related, but since I am looking for general feedback for strange bugs with my phone...
Another thing that happens is sometimes while using my phone, apps randomly reload (lack of a better word)
By reload, what happens is the app does not fully close and reopen. What happens is the app remains open ("heading" bar at the top remains) but the rest of the page I am on goes completely blank and then returns with any previous changes undone.
So say I was writing an email in gmail, the red bar at the top with the back arrow and trash can, etc. stays while the rest goes blank and any text I wrote will be gone and I have to start from the beginning. Usually when this is happening, it continues to happen repetitively for a little while. Eventually it just stops on its own. It does not seem to be related to any specific app (since it happens with a bunch of apps) unless maybe it is related to something like Swype keyboard that is always on.
Does that happen to anyone else too? What is causing this??
If your phone is 128g your nand is bad and you need a replacement. Google is aware of the issue and should swap no problem.
DR3W5K1 said:
If your phone is 128g your nand is bad and you need a replacement. Google is aware of the issue and should swap no problem.
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Thank you! I do have 128GB. I'm glad I finally asked!
NP glad to assist Buddy
So I have a really strange thing going on with edge lighting which is driving me crazy.
Whenever I play Elder Scrolls Blades the edge lighting appears but only in the bottom of the screen. As far as I been able to tell this only happens in this app though I can't be 100% sure.
Now what is strange other than it happens only in the bottom of the screen is that it keeps happening every few seconds, there is no notifications received and it happens, if I disable edge lighting it still happens, no matter to what effect I set the lighting it always happens in stock blue.
I can't possibly figure out what is this and I tried everything, any ideas would be appreciated.
Same thing here, in at least 2 games...
Thought it was related to spen, but it seems not...
Tried to disable Game Launcher but still got these random bottom screen notification pulse... And stock blue aswell. Got no clue atm
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one experiencing this. I tried literally everything and nothing seems to fix it. What's also weird is that the lighting comes in irregular intervals, sometimes just going crazy and sometimes appearing much less.
I have just discovered this issue appears in all games so it's a bigger problem then I originally thought. If disabling the game launcher does nothing then it makes it even more strange and annoying.
Yeah, same here, happens on basically all the games.
Maybe related to game booster?
Let's try to compare our setup : are you using any notification enhancement app? (like aodNotify)
Are you using your spen while playing?
But yeah, this random glow line **** is driving me crazy too!
Currently I am using aodNotify though I tried uninstalling it and the problem persists, I also have goodlock installed and the edgeslighting+, same thing with and without it. I am not using the spen, but I have tried just taking it out while the game is running and leaving it out for 5 mins, no change. I have disabled and enabled the stock edge lighting as well and the problem is still there. Nothing seems to effect it. Its ridiculous
i tried on mobile legend adventure, no problem on it, perhaps a scaling issue?
Will try to tweak full screen mode.
Increasing dpi doesn't change the weird thing, neither switching from Samsung stock launcher to Nova...
Also I'm using gestures based navbar, but I also tried with or without tips display, standard navbar... Still occurring.
Did you go from a scratch Note 10+ or used SideSync to switch? (I was coming from a Note 8)
I don't think it has anything to do with scaling, I tried setting the game on full screen and automatic, both giving the same results.
I used Smartswitch from Note 9.
Later today the camera effect from aodnotify started appearing in the game aswell (landscape mode), along with the edge lighting.?
I uninstalled aodnotify afterwards, found out there is a aodnotify Manager plugin which stays after uninstalling the main app.
Uninstalled the plugin aswell, opened edgescreen from the system app and cleared cache.
It was showing the app was using RAM with high frequency.
I don't have the time to check now does this fix the problem but will let you know once I do.
The only other thing left to do if this doesn't work is to clear edge screen data.
Will try this aswell, and restore all the notifications and edge lightning settings...
What I wrote above didn't work so I disabled the option for edge screen to show on top of other apps, so far this seems to fix the problem.
Unfortunately I was wrong and nothing above fixes the problem. I also wiped the entire edge screen memory, no effect. This is the weirdest thing I ever encountered in my years of Samsung phones and it's extremely annoying that there is no fix.
Strange, I don't have any issue.
Did you try with and without locking the screen orientation to see if edge lightning follows settings as it should?
I personally only use auto orientation.
I also use auto rotation and it happens the same way in landscape and portrait, the most annoying thing is that it happens really much, like 2-3 times in 10 seconds, or sometimes doesn't happen for few minutes then starts going like crazy, and as I said before there is no notifications or anything.
Same here, auto rotate on, only occurring during games.
I don't even know if I can debug which process is running these random edge notifications, without dig into tons of log files...
And if not, I guess I'll try to factory reset and re-sync again..
Its incredible that a factory reset seems like only possible solution left but I hope maybe some future update will fix it since I hate doing factory reset. Please keep me posted if you discover anything new.
Hating doing it aswell but this is too damn annoying..
If no clue, I'll go for a restore without restoring system settings... Maybe some notifications behaviors have been messed up
I'll keep you in touch for sure
Tried to wipe cache partition, still no clues...
Did this also got triggered in portrait mode game?
So confusing...
Yes it happens in all games no matter of the screen orientation. I really have no more ideas aswell
Got some news, another post is talking about this : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-10+/help/strange-blue-bar-games-t3963939
Seems related to the new game booster feature "temp and cpu monitoring"
Will try to disable this for a specific game and see...