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Hi,
I've downloaded the Widget "Xperia Arc Flashlight" so I can use the Xperia Play photolight on the backside as a very bright flashlight.
But: The LED does light constantly with some kind of visible short pulse... like a slight flicker or interruption. Is this normal?
Could you check if your phones behave like this, too? It's slightly visible but it IS visible and I want to know if there's s.th. wrong.
Thanks
system02 said:
Hi,
I've downloaded the Widget "Xperia Arc Flashlight" so I can use the Xperia Play photolight on the backside as a very bright flashlight.
But: The LED does light constantly with some kind of visible short pulse... like a slight flicker or interruption. Is this normal?
Could you check if your phones behave like this, too? It's slightly visible but it IS visible and I want to know if there's s.th. wrong.
Thanks
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Sometimes happens to to me when I'm overusing it,but after a few minutes it goes normal
Oha... thanks for your reply.
The Xperia Play is new and about 20min "old" ;-)
defective or not!?
Just as system02 said. It must be that kind of thing like the gap from the slider, although it shouldn't do like that.
Every single phone that has an LED flash does the same thing when used as a flashlight. It's completely normal.
It's not normal because:
- my 1st Play didn't have this issue
- my Arc didn't have this issue
- my Blackberry 9700 doesn't have this issue
I've updatet the software on my new Xperia Play and I thought it could have s.th. to do with the update...!?
zerojay said:
Every single phone that has an LED flash does the same thing when used as a flashlight. It's completely normal.
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None of my phones in the past flickered at all, my Play does it all the time, I think its a design issue somewhere.
mine used to do that but I used toggle auto brightness app from the market and it no longer does it.
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My old Legend used to blink it's LED from time to time, but no where near as noticeable as the Play's LED. Not exactly an issue for me though.
mine flickers when using video camera with lights on and when using Power Control Plus to turn on Flashlight. Nevertheless, it's very useful when the power goes out especially now it's kinda stormy here..
looking at the frequency of the issue, i think it's very normal..
PS, mine's bought in Hong Kong then flashed to UK, same issue eversince..
Not sure if they're linked but mine's been fine since i disabled the auto light sensor but before i disabled it, the led did flicker quite badly
tom
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Mine does the exact same thing, when using video recorder in the dark its like ive hit the strobe light button.. its ok for about 4-5secs then its like ive walked into cream in ibiza, it goes nuts.. ive had lots of xperia phones,, x10i x10 mini, x10 mini pro, etc none had the issue, i had it on the original firmware and now i have it on the 2.3.4 rom posted on this forum..
Its a strange one and kinda annoying
Sorry to bring this thread back, but the pulsating/flicker, I've seen on 3 Play's, from 2.3.2 - 2.3.3 - 2.3.4.
All 3 did it on all 3 software updates.
Uk phones, with the 2.3.2/2.3.3 uk updates, and then the Nordic update.
It's pulsating/flickering 50 times a minute, so 50hz(is that right?), increasing it's rate would effectively make it palatable to the human eye, and also remove the refresh lines you get from bright or close up subjects when using the flash as a light, seen on the recording screen, and on the actual recording...looking like old monitor refresh rates as seen through a camera with the travelling black lines.
Sony Ericsson support were useless when I mentioned it to them, stating if it was a fault, it would be fixed.
Is there any way to report this as a fault, or to fix it, or am I stuck with Customer Service Support Agents(call centre staff, basically.).
Is there any way or even a strobe app, that allows control of the light.
I know there's one on the windows phone that has a control for this issue.
LED Flashlight it's called, and the update fixes "Increased refresh rate to fix LED flickering on some phones."
Hi, I've the same problem. I also noticed that Led flick only when phone has mobile network turned on. When is on airplane mode it's normal.
Can someone else confirm? Maybe this problem can be solved with a baseband update.
EDIT: I found that this problem disappear when phone run in 3g, so it's about gsm.
Strange.. when I first bought the phone.. turned the LED on, it flickers..
Then today, after a week+ I tested it again and it's ok...
However, my earpiece speaker has blown up and cracking.. I've done some research and it seemed that there are so many users which have similar issues (either with the LED, the earpiece, etc) - It's sad to say that some xplay builds are defective from the start - could be from the hardware batch.
neato4u said:
Strange.. when I first bought the phone.. turned the LED on, it flickers..
Then today, after a week+ I tested it again and it's ok...
However, my earpiece speaker has blown up and cracking.. I've done some research and it seemed that there are so many users which have similar issues (either with the LED, the earpiece, etc) - It's sad to say that some xplay builds are defective from the start - could be from the hardware batch.
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Can you repeat the test in 2g?
Btw I checked the call quality: in 3g I heard nothing in background, in 2g I heard a intermittent buzzing.
Maybe in 2g that isn't a problem in the sense that it's common in every phone that make a 2g call, or it may be a radio problem that can be related to led issue..
I think that tomorrow I'll try to call someone at sony ericsson.
I did the test and it is true, in flight mode the light dont flik. Now i want to know what is the base band of you that have the same issue.
Thanks.
Mine did that on AT&T's 2.3.3, Now on DarkForest ICS with Darkforest Kernel, doesnt do it.
Mine always flickers, using two different flashlight apps.
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Hey dudes, i want to tell you that i solved the problem, i flashed the phone with the android 2.3.2 and it works fine now as too the HSUPA and GPS that i was having problems.
Thank you,
Couple of things i've noticed....
First, does the notification LED have a mind completely of its own?? I get a voicemail...and the light flashes...then 2 minutes later get another voicemail and nothing.
Got an SMS, nothing showed...got another, nothing showed, just got one now and it starts flashing at me.
Secondly, when i've received an SMS, i've gone into messaging app...and the screen dimmed and came back again quickly, so i clicked on settings and it dimmed completely like an LCD with no backlight, exit settings and it comes back again, go back into settings and it goes etc etc. Lock screen, unlock and it works fine...bit weird.
The most annoying one is definitely the useless notication LED because...if i'm sat at my desk listening to music rather loud and i cant hear a notification because of the quiet speaker, or i'm away when a message arrives...i don't know i've got it because it isn't flashing.
Y U not use the search engine?
There are multiple threads about this 'problem' and the only useful advise is always: https://market.android.com/details?...29uc3VsdGluZy5hbmRyb2lkLmxpZ2h0Zmxvd2xpdGUiXQ..
Y U not read?
I'm not bothered about colours or customising the LED, i'm quite happy with the white flash, i'm also well aware of lightflow and there's reasons why i wont use it.
the problem is the sheer randomness of the standard notification LED randomly deciding to flash or not flash based on...absolutely nothing
bleets said:
Y U not read?
I'm not bothered about colours or customising the LED, i'm quite happy with the white flash, i'm also well aware of lightflow and there's reasons why i wont use it.
the problem is the sheer randomness of the standard notification LED randomly deciding to flash or not flash based on...absolutely nothing
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I have had several phones with notification LED and this one is the only one that doesn't work correctly. Hopefullly the boneheads in the LED department over at Google can fix this. By the time they do, we will probably be able to choose from several ICS phones.
On a $700 phone, why do you need to download a 3rd party app to make one of the phones features work ?
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I have had several phones with notification LED and this one is the only one that doesn't work correctly. Hopefullly the boneheads in the LED department over at Google can fix this. By the time they do, we will probably be able to choose from several ICS phones.
On a $700 phone, why do you need to download a 3rd party app to make one of the phones features work ?
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This $700 phone has more problems than the $500 Galaxy S2 it seems. ICS is good, but hardware problems are starting to outweigh the benefits in my opinion. We need to keep downloading apps to manage these little things like the notification light, battery usage, volume problems (which the apps around still cause friction with ICS) etc.
This is my first Nexus and when I went into Vodaphone the other day the man at the store admired my phone. Then proceeded to tell me Nexus have always had little problems surrounding the hardware and software of the phones, the quality control isn't as good as the Galaxy S range. I'm starting to get that feeling too.
Well considering the galaxy s and s2 had their share of problems and the last two nexus are Samsung phones I find that trivial. I'm not having a lot of the problems people are having and my battery life is great, especially considering 4.65" amoled screen. Maybe apples don't fall far from the tree.
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so has nobody at all had the weird dimming screen thing?
I've been having a a bit of a strange bug with my GN...
When i unlock and open for instance messaging app to look at SMS's...i see the screen dim a lot and come back again. If i open up settings screen dims like an LCD panel with no backlight. If i click back, screen comes back again or if i lock and unlock screen, all is OK.
I've done some fiddling about and it only seems to happen on apps with white backgrounds i.e. messaging, gtalk, gmail etc. If i open dark background apps i.e. phone app, settings or gallery it doesnt happen.
But for all those other apps when i launch them, screen appears to flicker (dim) and come back again...messaging is the only one where it dims completely in settings.
Has anybody else noticed this?
And more wierdness...in the messaging settings menu, if i scroll to the bottom the brightness goes completely and then comes back again, and starts flickering a lot...
maybe i'll try turning off auto brightness and see if it still does it...
I've had a couple of customers come in already saying they always felt like the brightness was on notch to low sometimes or just very dim. Considered it user error, just got my nexus in the mail and after set up brightness just dropped randomly to almost nothing...
soooo guess we'll see
ah well still did it with auto brightness off
wonder if i've got a borked phone or if others do it and they just dont notice...
EDIT: if anybody's interested in seeing it i've just uploaded a vid here
And i know i still have the front screen cover on...havent wanted to take it off yet!
Restored stone to factory settings this morning and i've not installed anything else or changed any settings (other than turning off NFC, wifi and mobile data)...and it still does it.
Think i might have a defective handset then...annoying though, it's only 2 weeks old but the place i got it from states
Phones that are faulty out-of-box as determined by our warehouse can also be returned for an extended period of up to 7 days from date of delivery.
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So if i can't get a replacement out of them, what are the odds of samsung replacing it for a new handset?
Hmm pretty sure it's hardware, set desktop picture to something quite bright/white and sure enough when i was scrolling through the 5 homescreens brightness was flickering from one to the next...
What are the odds of getting a replacement handset after 2 weeks? :|
I had this same issue when I got my phone. I had a yakjuwx build in my phone.
Ever since I flashed over to yakju I haven't experienced it.
You may want to check and see what you have.
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El Daddy said:
I had this same issue when I got my phone. I had a yakjuwx build in my phone.
Ever since I flashed over to yakju I haven't experienced it.
You may want to check and see what you have.
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Hi, thanks for the reply.
Mine is already running yakju from new :/ I might try re-flashing it tonight though just for the hell of it.
Is this not a bit weird that it happens only on bright/wight screens/backgrounds/apps? And that it's suddenly fine when you lock the screen...
If it was a laptop i'd be fitting a new panel to it but then i dont know what amoled's are like (especially combined with a light sensor)
Nope, still does it after a re-flash :/
Got a replacement handset now...
Like my first one, it was one of the early opened and re-sealed with samsung label handsets (and they hadnt put the battery door on properly, fingerprint on the SIM card slot!)
But anyways, waiting for the OTA update on this one
It's obviously running ITL41D and no OTA has come through yet whereas on my first handset it came through pretty much straight away.
Would the fact i've already had the OTA on one handset stop this coming through? :|
Hello everyone, I got LeEco Le Pro 3 two weeks ago. For the past two weeks of testing, I notice that the screen quickly turns red when pressing the power button to turn the screen off. Is any of you facing this problem? It happens randomly, not every time. I have attached the video in slow motion capture in the 7z zip file. So you can see, what I am talking about. Let me know if any of you see it.
In mine sometimes it blink red. Power sleeping your phone rapidly. May red screen is reaction for force kill app?
marik1 said:
In mine sometimes it blink red. Power sleeping your phone rapidly. May red screen is reaction for force kill app?
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I did not power sleep my phone rapidly. The red screen still persist. I don't know if force kill app cause it. I submit the feedback through the leeco experience center about this issue. This is what I got from them:
"Le Engineer
Hello,
I just get some information for this issue, in low battery level the red screen issue will happen sometimes. We also find the same thing on other brand device.
However R&D team are working on it. Hope it will be fixed in next generation product.
Sorry for inconvenience. Thank you for choosing the LeEco."
So I don't know if my phone is defective or not. It's hard to tell. Base on this message, look like there is no fix for this.
I saw this movie. My phone behave as same as your <sometimes>. May it's EUI problem? Somebody on other ROM like MIUI or CM13 can say something?
marik1 said:
I saw this movie. My phone behave as same as your <sometimes>. May it's EUI problem? Somebody on other ROM like MIUI or CM13 can say something?
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Mine occur sometime, too. Here is what I analyze:
1. On the home screen; when pressing power button to turn off, red screen occur sometime.
2. Any app that has white background like the waze app I use in the video, red screen occur every time I turn off the screen while leaving the app running. That goes for other app like chrome, whatsapp, google map, gmail, etc. Same result.
3. On the back button, when I press hold, the screen turns off. No red issue. This was on the home screen and this rarely happen. But for apps that is open, same issue.
That is what I like to know if it is hardware defect or software EUI problem. It looks like software issues. It would be great if someone would test it with different roms such as CM13 or MIUI.
crazy1990 said:
Mine occur sometime, too. Here is what I analyze:
1. On the home screen; when pressing power button to turn off, red screen occur sometime.
2. Any app that has white background like the waze app I use in the video, red screen occur every time I turn off the screen while leaving the app running. That goes for other app like chrome, whatsapp, google map, gmail, etc. Same result.
3. On the back button, when I press hold, the screen turns off. No red issue. This was on the home screen and this rarely happen. But for apps that is open, same issue.
That is what I like to know if it is hardware defect or software EUI problem. It looks like software issues. It would be great if someone would test it with different roms such as CM13 or MIUI.
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It could be a software issue since I don't have that on CM.
marik1 said:
I saw this movie. My phone behave as same as your <sometimes>. May it's EUI problem? Somebody on other ROM like MIUI or CM13 can say something?
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I never seen with MIUI 8, can anyone give me a sequence to try ?
Tried some times, shut down it's too rapid to see with MIUI.
losteagle said:
I never seen with MIUI 8, can anyone give me a sequence to try ?
Tried some times, shut down it's too rapid to see with MIUI.
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If you have another phone with slow motion support just like I did, you can try that.
Other thing I want to mention, I would like to know that if the red screen does not happen to people who have CM or MIUI on lepro 3, can any of you go back to EUI and try to do the same steps? If you can. This would more confirm that the software is the issue and not the hardware defect.
Any update?
Hi folks! I've been searching for this rare issue since I got my LM2 last week. I have the very same issue and I notice the same @crazy1990 mentioned here. Besides, I notice this red light is more noticeable when the brightness is higher.
IMO, I don't feel it's a matter of bad hardware (I hope so), as there are no clues of any other issues at all. I'm also using stock (23s) and I suspect it's some poorly designed fade for the ROM.
Any updates from anyone?
Yes. Red screen blink is noticeable when the brightness is high. As of June, I still have this issue since November on this stock rom 21s. So far, there was no screen degradation or any kind of lcd problem. Lcd works perfect since day one. A while back, I installed lineageOS and I still experience red screen when the rom froze and reboot. At this point, I still don't know if it is the software or hardware. I hope someone can help us out.
crazy1990 said:
Yes. Red screen blink is noticeable when the brightness is high. As of June, I still have this issue since November on this stock rom 21s. So far, there was no screen degradation or any kind of lcd problem. Lcd works perfect since day one. A while back, I installed lineageOS and I still experience red screen when the rom froze and reboot. At this point, I still don't know if it is the software or hardware. I hope someone can help us out.
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At least your report is positive. :fingers-crossed:
Did you try other custom ROMs? RR, Cuoco?
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At least your report is positive. :fingers-crossed:
Did you try other custom ROMs? RR, Cuoco?
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No, but I already tried omnirom and purity rom. No red screen issue. I also tried tars 21s and turbo base rom, the issue is there.
crazy1990 said:
No, but I already tried omnirom and purity rom. No red screen issue. I also tried tars 21s and turbo base rom, the issue is there.
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Great to know it doesn't happen on Omni/Purity. My biggest concern was an increasing degradation and/or flickering issues arising when changing to a stock ROM.
Thanks for your information.
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Hi, after the Q update, my phone keeps pinging the charging sounds even when I'm not charging it. Anyone else facing this issue?
Also, my charger is working in only one direction randomly. I already RMA'ed the phone on the same issue when I upgraded to Pie from Orea. Now it's happening again after updating from Pie to Q.. Haha .. Any suggestion here as well?
It happens for me from time to time but not for along period just like 6 to 8 pings then stops... Really wired lol
jounes said:
It happens for me from time to time but not for along period just like 6 to 8 pings then stops... Really wired lol
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Yes! Exactly.. And that too in a short period..
Sent in for repairs..
The update changed my notification sounds to the charge ping. It also made that noise when I was in a call and got notifications. Check if that's what happened.
MaleSamus said:
The update changed my notification sounds to the charge ping. It also made that noise when I was in a call and got notifications. Check if that's what happened.
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Nope.. I confirmed it by muting all app's notification sounds.. As a matter of fact, for a fraction of a second, the phone shows it's charging when the sound comes.
After a clean flash of the Android 10 image, I've got the standard "ping" charging sound that can be listened for example on Android One devices. Any idea why the cool new one introduced with Android Pie is replaced by the old one?
Having the same issue with my 2 xl. Randomly shows charging but I have my phone on vibration so no sound. It started as soon as I updated to Android 10
I've got the same issue, has anyone solved it yet?
Hey I've got the same issue, it just popped out today and it's so irritating that makes me wanna break my phone... Has anyone figured out what's wrong? How to fix it? I know disabling charGing notification sound can help with sound but I'm worried about battery since it shows charging for half sec and then goes off... Really google? Is this what quality means for you?....
After a long discussion with a tech support agent, we concluded that when we update the phone OS to major versions (8>9 or 9>10) the USB port firmware is going for a toss and only a company level patching / reflashing can fix the corrupted firmware.
So, if at all any issue occurs after a major update with USB it's very likely because of the corrupt firmware which can only be fixed with a phone's visit to the service centre .
Anyone has experience to solved this issue?. This still happen on my 2 xl, I hope it will be fixed after security update on this december. But, still happen until now. I don't know why. Please share if anyone found how to solve this. Appreciates.
yayaq said:
Anyone has experience to solved this issue?. This still happen on my 2 xl, I hope it will be fixed after security update on this december. But, still happen until now. I don't know why. Please share if anyone found how to solve this. Appreciates.
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Do check if all other usb functions are working: audio dongle, data transfer, two side charging etc. If anything is not working, the problem is with the driver software in the phone and has to go for service.
I have experienced this same issue, charging notif keeps bugs me every minute a day after the december update. I tried to buy new type C cable and adapter and the charging sound suddenly stop until now. Try this, i promise it may help you. Thank me later