Ok i noticed when the phone is locked, any press of any key on the front activates the screen light, now when the phone is in my pocket will thid be happening all the time, or will the proximity sensor stop the light from activating?
jrvenge said:
Ok i noticed when the phone is locked, any press of any key on the front activates the screen light, now when the phone is in my pocket will thid be happening all the time, or will the proximity sensor stop the light from activating?
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It will activate anytime a button is pressed.
Yeah thats what i said already, but you didnt answer the question about the proximity sensor?
I think he did....
The light will activate when a button is pressed even when in your pocket.
jrvenge said:
Ok i noticed when the phone is locked, any press of any key on the front activates the screen light, now when the phone is in my pocket will thid be happening all the time, or will the proximity sensor stop the light from activating?
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As far as i know, the proximity sensor only works when being on the phone and not when device is using other apps or is locked....
The proximity sensor will only turn off the screen/backlight when you are in a call. It will not turn off the screen/backlight if any buttons are pressed while keylocked in your pocket.
thats just lame!
No it's actually not that lame. Proximity sensor that's always on will be draining your battery.
No so much as pressing the bloody backlight every 2 mins, will need a fix for that, crap.
I think its a nice idea. Im very sure the proximity sensor doesnt drain that much power so you can use it to manage the backlight when in pocket.
on the one hand it would be nice to use that sensor to keep the backlight off while in pocket, but I can't really say I had that problem. When I put my HD2 in the pouch it only turned on the backlight when I pressed the buttons. I can't say it happened while it was in my pocket, every time I took it out of my pocket the backlight was off.
Just cus it was off when you took it out, dont mean you were not activating it on occasions, you cant see it can you?
jrvenge said:
Just cus it was off when you took it out, dont mean you were not activating it on occasions, you cant see it can you?
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with your attitude i`ll be suprised if people keep answering you.
jrvenge said:
No so much as pressing the bloody backlight every 2 mins, will need a fix for that, crap.
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I don't know what you're doing pressing things in your pocket for every 2 minutes, but I suspect that if you get caught doing it in public you'll risk getting arrested.
If it's such a world-shaking problem, write a program to do it yourself, it should be pretty simple. Chop chop.
mr_ray said:
i don't know what you're doing pressing things in your pocket for every 2 minutes, but i suspect that if you get caught doing it in public you'll risk getting arrested.
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ha!ha!
sharpey said:
with your attitude i`ll be suprised if people keep answering you.
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ha!ha!
Unhelpful but amusing...
I am surprised that you are pressing the buttons all the time in your pocket. If the phone is locked (ie press the hang up key once) the screen goes off, and if I touch the screen it doesn't come back on. I have to press a button. Those need a little press to them, so surely not something your leg is doing when the phone is in your pocket. Unless you wear skin tight jeans or something...
3D witch hunt started, forget it....
Yeah, I don't know what their problem is with this question.
It is very easy for the buttons to be pressed while the phone is in your pocket, especially when it is held tightly in the leather case -- any depression along the case will press buttons that are already tightly packed inside the case. This can happen without your hands coming close to your pocket -- it can happen just from the phone shifting in your pocket while you sit up or down, or from your pocket bumping up against a wall or piece of furniture.
There also seems to be a problem with the backlight not turning off automatically until the PIN is entered. So if you accidentally press any button, such as by sitting down and shifting the phone in your pocket, the phone's backlight will stay on forever until you either press the power button or enter the PIN.
Until this issue is fixed, the HD2 is basically useless as a phone for me -- battery life is 4-5 hours max.
Just dicks i guess, obviously their opinion is a better one.
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Nice to meet all the bro & sisters here.
Sorry if this question been repeated, I searched but not find anything related to this.
I am TYTN II user switched to HD2 just 2 days ago.
I have noticed one button with end call button + switch off/standby.
Whenever I am on the call wanted to turn off the screen the phone went off after pressed the standby button, sometimes the screen automatically turn off but when the phone is shaking the screen turn back on in my pocket.
Tried locking the screen but no outcome.
Hope someone can help me out with solutions.
thanks & merry christmas to everyone.
Ken
Hd2 has a proximity sensor which will automatically turn off / dim the screen when you are in a call.
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, but during walk the screen will keep turn off and on that will consume the battery life.
zenkinz said:
Hd2 has a proximity sensor which will automatically turn off / dim the screen when you are in a call.
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Also to the point, if the screen goes off during a call, how do I get it back on again (i.e. pressing the normal screen-on key ends the call)
Stephen
ofuroinu said:
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, but during walk the screen will keep turn off and on that will consume the battery life.
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It only does this when you are in a call. At other times, when you lock the phone, the screen stays off till you press the end-call button again.
Stephen Selby said:
Also to the point, if the screen goes off during a call, how do I get it back on again (i.e. pressing the normal screen-on key ends the call)
Stephen
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You put the phone to your ear, and the screen goes off instantly.
You move it away from your ear and the screen comes back on instantly.
If it's not working like that then there's an issue somewhere, as that's what it's supposed to do, and it works perfectly for me and many others.
Do you guys with the problem have screen protectors on? I do, but mine doesn't interfere with the proximity sensor. I know that some can though, as reported by other users in this forum.
Sorry bros
My meaning is if using hand free kit & the phone kept in pant pocket, while moving on the road the phone sensor makes the screen goes on & off repeatly
didn't any one notice this point? Until I take out and hold it then stop blinking.
Hope it is clear now.
The sensor is just for phone when it is near the ear & away from the ear or on the table upside down.
Please help me thank you
I use a hands free set a lot, and just put the phone in the sleeve while in a conversation.
The proximity sensor then keeps the screen turned off.
Hi ofuroinu, there are lots of solutions :
You can install S2U2.
In power settings it has an option "Blank Screen on Talk" which automatically shuts off the screen when the call begins.
Or you can also install AEButtonPlus and associate the long press of send button (or another one ... yet it is not working for all the buttons) with the Switch on / switch off Screen command (number 32 in the list) to do it manually at will with a long key press.
I suppose you can also have a look at mortscript to find a script that toggle the screen, then associate the script to a shortcut that you can put in the home tab shortcuts.
Cheers,
Nibbler.
ofuroinu said:
Sorry bros
My meaning is if using hand free kit & the phone kept in pant pocket, while moving on the road the phone sensor makes the screen goes on & off repeatly
didn't any one notice this point? Until I take out and hold it then stop blinking.
Hope it is clear now.
The sensor is just for phone when it is near the ear & away from the ear or on the table upside down.
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Silly question, but if the phone is in your pocket, how on Earth do you know that the screen is turning on and off?
THANK YOU TO ALL THE GOOD FRIENDS WHO HAVE REPLIED ME.
Maybe it is silly question to Jim Coleman, I am sorry.
I CAN SEE THE SOFT SCREEN LIGHT THRU MY PANT, BECOX IS QUITE THIN MATERIAL, AND OF COURSE ON THIS EARTH BROTHER.
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU TO EVERYONE & MERRY CHRISTMAS & FRUITFUL NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.
So after having phone for 10 days now i find that it likes to unlock him self in my pocket, and if i go near my pocket with my fingers, or if its faced down so it touches my body, screen reacts , unlocks and does stupid stuff on phone.
My question now is: Is it possible to make some applicaiton, that would disable unlock on hard Menu button, and any on screen unlock patterns, but just phone can be unlocked by pressing optical trackball down(which is nearly impossible to press in pocket because of its nice positioning)
And please dont suggest me unlock patterns or pins, because i just dont like them.
I agree, i experience the same problems,
and I would suggest to this idea, that if it would be possible to implement ability remapping of the on/off key ( at least the time needed to push the key ) to turn screen on. because i experience turning the phone on in my pocket by selfpushing the on-off.
and to be honest, i like to use the screen with my fingers, not using the optical trackball at all an sometimes when i scroll with fingers, it interferes when my finger slips, or rests.
so my suggestion. to increase the time needed to push the on/off button to make screen active if possible
to make the optical trackball push make unlock the screen.
and an ability to disable optical trackball scroling ( not pushing, just disabled scrolling )
I had same problem , way i got around it,
put a lock pattern on your screen, but also add a widget to set the lock pattern on/off, that way when your going out with the phone in your pocket you set the lock to on and it wont do anything. when your at home,turn it off to get easy access.
Yeah, that works, but is not smooth.
hate the lock pattern.
the ideal case would be by on home page to disable on off button and.
with long push optical trackball to lock/unlock screen.
i dont understand how does it happen for you guys, do you never use power button to put it on sleep? i had this phone for pretty much a month now and it hever happened to me even when was wearin fairly tight jeans.
btw try lockpro app from the market it is paid though unfortunately
cez10 said:
i dont understand how does it happen for you guys, do you never use power button to put it on sleep? i had this phone for pretty much a month now and it hever happened to me even when was wearin fairly tight jeans.
btw try lockpro app from the market it is paid though unfortunately
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+1, never happened to me too, i guess you guys set the screen to not turn off? lol.....
even if the phone is ringing, i can still take it out of my pocket without it being answered....well i must say it's in a pouch too....maybe thats a solution to your problem....
I think it depends on how tight your trousers are maybe? if the button is pressed, and you pull it out the slider slides down??
Just a guess
Lol yea and if your pocket is actually your underpants, since my phone won't react to any touch with fabric between my skin and the screen.
My suggestion is that you grow some hair on your legs (or stop shaving), then you will have no problems.
And yea I have never had this problem in the 2 weeks or so of ownership. Although I do put them in my pocket where it is surrounded by a layer of cotton being the lining of the pocket, so that it is impossible for my skin to touch the screen. Not sure how your pockets work?
Use the unlock pattern.
Menu/settings/security/
this way it cannot unlock itself unless you draw the pattern, plus it helps if anyone picks up your desire wthout you knowing.
P.s I have never had an issue with the screen unlocking in my pocket, holder or anything else.
As i wrote on end of my strating post. I DO NOT LIKE unlock patterns. It doesnt prevent phone to turn on, and + its damn ugly.
To repeat ones more. I would like a way to disable screen ON using main power button, and set it so it only turns on by optical trackball click(not unlock directly, just to turn ON screen).
I'm using nice leather case for phone, but lots of times i push it in i turn on the screen. + with other in pocket random stuff which i explained..
OnlinePredator said:
Lol yea and if your pocket is actually your underpants, since my phone won't react to any touch with fabric between my skin and the screen.
My suggestion is that you grow some hair on your legs (or stop shaving), then you will have no problems.
And yea I have never had this problem in the 2 weeks or so of ownership. Although I do put them in my pocket where it is surrounded by a layer of cotton being the lining of the pocket, so that it is impossible for my skin to touch the screen. Not sure how your pockets work?
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Well it happens to me sometimes. If I press the lock button and then slide the phone up from my pocket while the screen is turned towards my leg, it unlocks.
The desire touch screen actually works trough thin fabric (like the one they make pants pockets from). Try putting your shirt between your finger and the screen. You'll see it'll work.
unlock bug?
ivicask said:
As i wrote on end of my strating post. I DO NOT LIKE unlock patterns. It doesnt prevent phone to turn on, and + its damn ugly.
To repeat ones more. I would like a way to disable screen ON using main power button, and set it so it only turns on by optical trackball click(not unlock directly, just to turn ON screen).
I'm using nice leather case for phone, but lots of times i push it in i turn on the screen. + with other in pocket random stuff which i explained..
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plus isn't there still a bug in 2.1 where if you put the unlock pattern in wrong 5 times you can't unlock your phone and it doesn't accept your google account password?
ivicask said:
As i wrote on end of my strating post. I DO NOT LIKE unlock patterns. It doesnt prevent phone to turn on, and + its damn ugly.
To repeat ones more. I would like a way to disable screen ON using main power button, and set it so it only turns on by optical trackball click(not unlock directly, just to turn ON screen).
I'm using nice leather case for phone, but lots of times i push it in i turn on the screen. + with other in pocket random stuff which i explained..
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It is not possible. There was a big thread about this in the HTC Hero section. It needs the source code to be modified.
Not sure what you mean OP, my phone is in my pocket everyday and also inside a pouch, basically when i want to lock my phone i hit the power button and it will go into lock mode with the screen off, when i want to start it again, i press the power button and this displays a screen which is locked, i then have to move the slider down in order to unlock it, based on what you are saying i am finding it hard to imagine how it is unlocking in your pocket so can you confirm that your phone acts in the same manner as mine does and please explain more on how this is unlocking please.
haggisuk99 said:
Not sure what you mean OP, my phone is in my pocket everyday and also inside a pouch, basically when i want to lock my phone i hit the power button and it will go into lock mode with the screen off, when i want to start it again, i press the power button and this displays a screen which is locked, i then have to move the slider down in order to unlock it, based on what you are saying i am finding it hard to imagine how it is unlocking in your pocket so can you confirm that your phone acts in the same manner as mine does and please explain more on how this is unlocking please.
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Well i do know what OP means. I had my Desire one day and accidentally denied 4 out of 5 calls by taking the desire out of my pants. I make a habit of putting my phone up side down, screen facing inwards inside my pocket. So, on an incoming call the Desire shows the vertical slider, which is slided upwards by taking the phone out of your pocket, thus denying the call.
It's the most stupid design for a lock screen i've ever seen, and it could have been avoided if only one HTC engineer had made a few test calls to anothers Desire in his pants.
I installed Lock 2.0 which gives a horizontal slider on the lock screen, and which brings back the default accept and deny on-screen buttons. Still not perfect, but much better than the vertical slider.
+1 for the previous post. thx for the lock 2.0 app tip. I will download and try asap.
it does a lot of unwanted stuff in my pants...incl. self unlocking, call denying. etc..
shame that the unlock cant be easily recoded to the optical button.
Optical click unlock is already in the Cyanogen rom for desire.
Hello! Just bought an Optimus 7! Really good phone for the price!
But i got one problem! When im going to turn on the phone with the windows button its sometimes not responding!
Somebody else got this problem?
Yes. Happens to me all the time, but I always use the power button to turn on the screen so it doesn't bother me that much...
Sounds like a known issue.
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Sounds like a known issue.
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Same here. It must be a software bug because the button is always working when the phone is unlocked.
If you still hold for a while it works
One reason for the screen not turning on is that you may be blocking the proximity sensor at the top left of the phone. The reason behind that is probably to avoid turning on the screen when the phone is e.g. in a pocket.
for me the start button for screen unlock always works, but many times screen is unlocked and all black, the systems listen to the touch input but doesnt show nothing at all....it happens very often usually when the phone is hot...
Hey, do any of you have a problem with the power button? More specifically, when I try to wake the phone, instead of using the knock knock feature, u sometime press the power button. What happens is, the screen turns on, and then immediately after 1-2 sec turns off again. It seems that I only can turn the screen on by using knock knock
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Hey, do any of you have a problem with the power button? More specifically, when I try to wake the phone, instead of using the knock knock feature, u sometime press the power button. What happens is, the screen turns on, and then immediately after 1-2 sec turns off again. It seems that I only can turn the screen on by using knock knock
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It does that when the proximity (right next to the front speaker on the top front, to the left) is covered, so it doesn't turn on in your pocket. It's a safety feature. So it has to be completly clear before you press the power button.
A bad screenprotector can cause it to happen.
virtual-aidz said:
It does that when the proximity (right next to the front speaker on the top front, to the left) is covered, so it doesn't turn on in your pocket. It's a safety feature. So it has to be completly clear before you press the power button.
A bad screenprotector can cause it to happen.
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I have no screenprotector, and I held the phone in may hand. I choose to restart the phone and it helped.
KaZyKa said:
I have no screenprotector, and I held the phone in may hand. I choose to restart the phone and it helped.
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Yay, proximity sensors just sometimes **** up. It used to do on my old phone. I thought they had fixed that long time ago though, hence I didn't mention that possibility.
Good you fixed it!
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I have no screenprotector, and I held the phone in may hand. I choose to restart the phone and it helped.
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Same thing happens to my phone and it bugs the sh*t out of me. There better be a fix soon for this.
It's just due to the proximity sensor. Nothing to be worried about.
So how does the proximity sensor error work exactly? if it detects low light (like being in a pocket) it won't let you unlock? Wouldn't that mess up unlocking in the dark?
xstewiegriffinx said:
So how does the proximity sensor error work exactly? if it detects low light (like being in a pocket) it won't let you unlock? Wouldn't that mess up unlocking in the dark?
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It's a light detector AND proximity sensor.
Uses the light for the screen light (auto brightness)
The proximity sensor checks if there is something covering the screen. (like being in your pocket)
I have a s7 att with all latest firmware and updates. When I'm in a call using bluetooth and I press the power button to turn the display off so I can slide it into my pocket. The display goes black then wakes again after about 3 seconds. Tried a factory reset, reboots and general troubleshooting. Even smart stay and proximity sensor. Even changed my case in case something was triggering it...
Any assistance?
crapymonkey said:
I have a s7 att with all latest firmware and updates. When I'm in a call using bluetooth and I press the power button to turn the display off so I can slide it into my pocket. The display goes black then wakes again after about 3 seconds. Tried a factory reset, reboots and general troubleshooting. Even smart stay and proximity sensor. Even changed my case in case something was triggering it...
Any assistance?
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The only work around I have found is to hit the home button, or leave the call app in any way, then lock the screen.
This is SUPER annoying!!!
elijahblake said:
The only work around I have found is to hit the home button, or leave the call app in any way, then lock the screen.
This is SUPER annoying!!!
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I know, I'm one to talk on my bluetooth to someone for hours while my phones in my pocket. But lately I have to be careful because I hang up or mute ect... my phone from bumping my pocket.
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I know, I'm one to talk on my bluetooth to someone for hours while my phones in my pocket. But lately I have to be careful because I hang up or mute ect... my phone from bumping my pocket.
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One other thing that has helped was to turn on Keep Screen Turned Off under Settings>Display...
This bug still sucks and needs to be fixed though
I do that, i can litterly press the power button and screen will go black. Then a few seconds later its back on.
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One other thing that has helped was to turn on Keep Screen Turned Off under Settings>Display...
This bug still sucks and needs to be fixed though
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