Sometimes when putting my Touchpad into its slip case, I accidentally catch the unlock/wake button, but rather than turn off automatically it seems to stay on the unlock screen indefinately, by the time I realise there is hardly any battery left
I've installed Preware and few of the basic patches, but not a new kernel.
Anyone got any ideas?
I would just power it down before putting it in the case. That way the screen won't accidently come on.
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That subtracts from the instant on tablet experience though.. Does it happen to anyone else, is this by design or have I done something?
I have had it stay on as well. I think it has to do with the screen sensitivity patch being set too high.
Removed the patch and its now working. Many thanks.
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Hey all,
My Samsung Fascinate has an issue where the following have been happening (mostly in spurts, where it gets really bad);
There are what you could call "Phantom" button presses, I'll be doing something on it, surfing the web, reading something, and it'll just start acting up as if random buttons are being pressed. This'll go on for about 10-30 seconds, or until I use kill a bunch of background running apps. I originally thought it was due to having a screen protector over the hot keys, so I took that off the hot key area. that took care of it for a while, until I rooted my phone and started using custom ROMs (right now, I had a debloated ED01 ROM). After that, it began acting up again. I'm gonna try derooting it and doing the official updates to see if that helps. Any other directions for me to look in to fix this? Now it also has been eating up battery power like crazy (it almost dies when I was at work today, and I pretty much only use it as a time piece when there).
I also now have the problem where it wakes back up after I put it to sleep. If you just want to answer this in the thread already for this problem, then no problem, I'll follow that thread as well as this one.
Thanks for your help on this.
BW
EDIT: Another symptom for consideration: When the phone acts up, it'll also snap screenshots when I try to power it off. Usually I can stop this by killing most of the running apps or swiping my finger across the hotkey area..
Sounds like something is up with your digitizer (the part of the screen that registers touch/gestures). If you flash back to bone stock ED01 and it's still acting up, take it in and get it swapped/fixed.
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Hey all,
My Samsung Fascinate has an issue where the following have been happening (mostly in spurts, where it gets really bad);
There are what you could call "Phantom" button presses, I'll be doing something on it, surfing the web, reading something, and it'll just start acting up as if random buttons are being pressed. This'll go on for about 10-30 seconds, or until I use kill a bunch of background running apps. I originally thought it was due to having a screen protector over the hot keys, so I took that off the hot key area. that took care of it for a while, until I rooted my phone and started using custom ROMs (right now, I had a debloated ED01 ROM). After that, it began acting up again. I'm gonna try derooting it and doing the official updates to see if that helps. Any other directions for me to look in to fix this? Now it also has been eating up battery power like crazy (it almost dies when I was at work today, and I pretty much only use it as a time piece when there).
I also now have the problem where it wakes back up after I put it to sleep. If you just want to answer this in the thread already for this problem, then no problem, I'll follow that thread as well as this one.
Thanks for your help on this.
BW
EDIT: Another symptom for consideration: When the phone acts up, it'll also snap screenshots when I try to power it off. Usually I can stop this by killing most of the running apps or swiping my finger across the hotkey area..
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I would say you need to do a real good cleaning of your screen. The screen protectors for the Fascinate were not designed to be placed over the capacative keys (hot keys) and the slight adhesive on the screen protector probably left a residue on the capacitive keys. The screenshot when pressing the power button is a big clue. Screenshots are taken when you hold down the back capacative key and press the power button. This problem has almost always been cleared up by thoroughly cleaning the capacitive (soft) keys.
Cool, thanks guys for the help. I'll try the cleaning thing first; I'm guessing that alcohol wipes would work just fine for this?
Also, on the screen cap thing, that does make sense considering the major thing that happens is my phone will act as if the back button is pressed (with it occasionally phantom pressing the home button and bringing up the task manager box). Would it maybe be a good idea to completely remove the screen protector (it's a ZAGG, ie: Heavy duty). I've talked to a couple of people who say it shouldn't be a huge necessity to have one on.
If this doesn't work, I'll go through and flash the stock ED01.
If anyone else has a possible answer/ solution, feel free to chime in, as I'm hoping to get an idea of all the possible reasons for this.
Thanks again.
Just fyi, you can disable the screen capture service by freezing it through a variety of apps (a lot of people use titanium backup pro).
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artvandelay440 said:
Just fyi, you can disable the screen capture service by freezing it through a variety of apps (a lot of people use titanium backup pro).
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How would I do that, I've looked through TiB and don't see an obvious setting that would take care of this.
First, you must have the pro version. Go to backup/restore tab at the top and find the screen capture service (it's in red text). Tap it and select freeze. This will disable, but not uninstall it, so you can restore it later. PM me if you need a screen shot.
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Ok, got it. Now if I could get it to stop turning back on when I sleep it, it's been doing that a lot more of late. Going back to the capacitive keys issue; Is there a mod that can adjust the sensitivity of those keys, to make it so they don't get 'pressed' if theres any junk on them?
BW
Today my Atrix 4G started acting like a ghost was controlling it. It can be just sitting there with the display on, and somt part of the screen will be pressed and a program started. I have Elixir 2 buttons, Multicon buttons, and the regular app buttons installed on the display by the basic ATT controls. All three have had buttons "pressed" in a seemingly random way. I have rebooted several times. The phone is quite unusable.
Then I also get my regular reboot problem. The phone will be fine all day, but at some point, it just starts rebooting every 2 minutes. The little LED in the upper right corner turns often purple (it is usually green.) I get the process stopped message a lot then, too. It happens even if it is fully charged.
Part of your problem can be after having widgets on screen if you then froze the program which is for the widget the widget remains but as a ghost. You don't see it but its there. I had this issue with something like beautiful widgets and it played hell with my phone. Just a thought.
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No wifi, nothing frozen
I have not frozen any programs. It happened after several reboots. I also did not have wifi turned on.
Thanks for your suggestions
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I have not frozen any programs. It happened after several reboots. I also did not have wifi turned on.
Thanks for your suggestions
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I have this issue too, but it happens at random times and I can stop it by turning the screen off then on.
I think it might be the digitizer going bad.
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Mine was accompanied by dead zones. I had to rotate the phone to get certain spots and keys on the keyboard to register. Sometimes pressing a spot on the lower left side registered on the upper right.
When I finally replaced the digitizer, I found the left side ribbon had detached and was being held in place by pressure. if the ribbon moved around, it caused spurious connections. I even had one ROM install itself with the Aroma installer because it kept thinking I was hitting the "next" button.
Digitizer replacement fixed.
Will replace phone, need to copy old phone to new
I think my phone needs a new digitizer. The wty expires in a week, so I'm going to a service center tmw. Thanks to all who made these useful suggestions.
Do I need to unroot it before I return it?
Do you know how to ghost my old phone to my new one?
Has anyone else had issues with their back light faulting? I've searched and have seen that other sprint evo lte users have had issues with screen flickering, but my problem seems to be more serious that that. when i wake up in the morning the screen is blank. thank god i have a custrom rom installed and can manually mess with the status bar slider to get the backlight to turn back on. It just needs to be tweaked here and there. the backlight seems to only like to work on full brightness, if not, it will flicker like crazy. if i press with more pressure on certain parts of the screen the backlight turns off completely until i remove my finger. I dont think its a proximity issue since it'll just flicker sitting on a desk. Do I need to replace the screen? is this worth it? i havent dropped to phone or anything for this to default. I can upload a video later. gonna use my OG evo for that which is still kicken by the way
I realize this thread is incredibly old, but did you ever find a solution to the flickering problem? I just started seeing the exact same behavior, including the screen going dark when putting pressure on certain areas of the screen.
Thanks!
I have a PJ75100 doing this, but the screen does not function at all. I get the orange/green light while charging, and if I power it on it acts as if it's doing it's regular startup, but nothing shows on screen.
I did update the stock firmware with the latest release ruu, but still no screen.
I'd really like to get this one going as it's not the normal Jewel, it's the white and silver one, and my girlfriend wants it to replace her iPhone 5c.
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Had to do a battery pull last night. Had my phone in my pocket for probably an hour, when I pulled it out the screen was black. LED would flash ocassionally and I think I heard a text so everything was fine except the screen. I have Always On off, and I require either fingerprint, a pin, or OK Google voice recognition to unlock.
Tapping the screen, hard pressing or fingerprinting the power button, volume buttons all did nothing. I guess there's a dialog for powering off the device so holding the power button didn't reboot it either. Eventually pulled the battery and it rebooted fine.
Anyone else had this? Pretty disappointed. Haven't installed any new apps in the past few days. I've heard (and had once) a related issue where the phone takes a lot of presses to turn on the screen—in that situation, Always On is on, it's in your pocket so the phone detects and turns off Always On, and for some reason when you pull it out it very infrequently takes a little while to come on. No idea if they're related.
Do you have a screen protector, skin or case installed? Maybe it's causing issues with the sensors in combination with something else?
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Do you have a screen protector, skin or case installed? Maybe it's causing issues with the sensors in combination with something else?
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Have a case and a glass screen protector but they are not new.
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This just happened to me yesterday. Dropped the phone, and it stayed on but the screen is completely black. I opened it up and tried re-setting the display ribbon cable, but that didn't do anything. Anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
My LG V30 VS996 will occasionally get stuck in what I've called the "Lock-Screen Loop", where it'll flash the lock screen, start to load things, and then immediately put itself to sleep and do it again. It looks like I'm turning the phone on and off without unlocking it. The fingerprint scanner doesn't work, Knock-On doesn't work, volume buttons don't work, the only thing that works is restarting the phone.
I have scoured all over the internet and tried toggling every possible setting that might be related to this issue, and still I've come up with something. It's so infuriating.
There's no easy way to recreate it, but it'll happen at least once a day, sometimes more than 4 or 5 times. The circumstances to make it occur change, too. Sometimes I'll go to turn it on with the fingerprint scanner and it'll happen, sometimes it's completely off and I'm not touching it and it happens, and other times I'll be scrolling through Twitter or whatever and it'll just happen.
Has anyone else on here ever experienced this or have an easy fix? I could try factory resetting it but I'd really rather not do that; my phone wasn't receiving the 8.0 update so I had to manually put it on and I'm afraid it'll revert itself and I'll have to go through all that hassle again. (Frankly, I don't remember how I did it, but the lock screen looping started long after I did that).
Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated
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I could try factory resetting it but I'd really rather not do that; my phone wasn't receiving the 8.0 update so I had to manually put it on and I'm afraid it'll revert itself and I'll have to go through all that hassle again.
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Factory resetting will not wipe out Oreo.
The same problem comes up when in Pie. It seemed that the latest security update would have fixed it, but no.
I wonder if someone has a solution, other than factory reset.
From how you have explained it, it seems ghost touches on screen, either the digitizer is damaged (a hardware problem) that can happen from heat or dropping the phone. Ghost touches can also hang the phone in a state that fingerprint scanner or volume buttons may not work because cpu is too busy processing constant ghost touches. I had this happen to me when i dropped a phone where at random times the screen would light up as if i did 'knock on', lockscreen would come on for a sec and then phone would go back to sleep and at other times the phone would behave normally. If that's the case with your phone, there is no fix for that and even factory reset will not help.
It is also possible that your phone case or a new or worn out screen protector are interfering with the normal function of digitizer by producing ghost touches. Inspect the screen, especially the curved edges, if you have a piece of debris or phone case interfering with screen. If you use a case, try not use it for a day and see if it happens. If it still happens, remove the screen protector, put the case back on and see if it still happens.