I droped my phone but it was inside a big protective case now i don't know if this issue is related to this but here it goes.
If i open a picture message with the phone in my hand the screen goes into landscape, when i exit out it stays in landscape until i exit the messaging client. Here is the strange part, if i leave my phone flat on the table and do the same it goes back to portrait mode as soon as i close the picture.
Does this sound like the phone has a hardware damage?
Tried restarting it and calibrating the accelerometer, nothing.
Can someone please also do me a favor and see if in the game Teeter when the phone is on the flat surface does the ball still rolls slightly to the left? I can make it stop and not move but it prefers to go to the left.
My ball stays still.
I don't see how this can be a problem since accelerometer works but in an sms client only when the phone is on the desk.
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I usually use the phone in vertical mode, but once in a while when I take the phone off sleep, it starts off in horizontal mode. Mind you it was not in horizontal mode to begin with.
I tried duplicating the problem by leaving the phone slightly slided open and turning it on, but I can't recreate the issue.
This has something to do with the case being magnetic. I read about it somewhere.
barrr said:
This has something to do with the case being magnetic. I read about it somewhere.
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Quite right barr. The internal switch that operates the landscape mode is a magnetically operated one. Normally as you slide open the keyboard it passes over the switch. BUT when in the holster cases, the powerful magnets on the cases can pass close enough to the switch to change to landscape. Not a big problem really, it will turn itself back around in a second or two.
You can test this by passing the case magnet slowly around the edge of the device and see in turn to landscape mode!
Mike
So I'm having some problems with my Telus HTC P4000 screen.
The other day an idiot at work knocked my phone out of my hand, it fell and the battery popped out. Seemed like no big deal.
Now when I slide the phone open the screen doesn't fresh properlly in landscape mode at full side out. It just freezes and blurs.
For the most part is has been refreshing correctly when sliding back to portrait, but that has been messing up a little now too.
The screen still detects touch fine in both modes, even if it is freezing, it's just refreshing. I'm thinking a connection could have come loose so the screen isn't receving the image update correctly?
Any ideas?
...additionally it seems that I can't hear on incoming and outgoing calls now.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I recently replaced the screen in my 6800 - (I'm out of insurance replacements, and I don't like the Touch Pro Verizon offered me very much.)
The dissasembly and re-assembly went swimmingly - except for the fact that my phone now reverts to Landscape every time it wakes up, as if the switch that detects the sliding motion is broken or disconnected.
Does anyone have any details of where this switch is and how it works? I have heard mention of it being a magnetic reed switch, but I also see a little tab of metal in the slide mechanism that looks like a contact closure point for this.
Any ideas or information?
I know this isn't probably the best answer, but have you looked into software that will rotate the screen? You could then assign that software to a button and rotate that way.
Yeah, I have "Screen Rotate" mapped to the messaging button, but it still reverts to landscape every time the phone goes to sleep, even if I set the screen mode to "portrait" in the settings.
I took it apart all the way again last night, I still can't find any sign of the mechanism it uses to detect open/close.
There are some metal ground clips on the lcd side that I think it uses to sense its location. If you slide the phone out you will see a gold colored clip in one of the slide groves.
As everyone know WP7 has a feature which rotate screen as phone is rotated. In my phone it always work, almost 90% of time it is in "vertical" mode, when I rotate phone it switches to "horizontal", but I have seen issues few times:
1. when phone lays steady on flat surface (like table), when I unlock phone it is sometime switched to "horizontal", even when it was in "vertical" when I had put it on table,
2. when I am talking to sb with this phone, and phone is hold vertical, when I want to end call, the "end call" button is vertical, but options below changed to horizontal.
Of course every time phone switches back to vertical mode after 3-5s but it looks strange and annoying.
Has anyone else this problem?
I have check sensor calibration in MFG menu and it looks ok, at every flat surface I got reading 0 at both axis with small random noise (below 1).
Elektryk I've got the same problem but I don't care about it
same problem here... really annoying :S
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My proximity sensor keeps stuffing up. When I make a call, and put the phone to my ear , it turns off the screen but when I release the phone from my ear, the phone screens remains off and I cannot access the phone untill the other party hangs up
This is a real pain when they do not answer and their voicemail comes on and I need to leave a message. I have to turn off my phone when this happens
I have fixed this but it only remains fixed for about a day
I have cleaned it, blown in the area where the proximity sensor sits with a straw ( did not have air compressor can) worked for about a couple of days then it stuffs up again
Not sure what the hell I can do to fix it now.. Buy a new sensor? I have a screen protector but there is a cut out where the ear goes
Go into settings, accessibility, then tick 'The power key ends calls' It won't turn off the screen.
I had that problem, I took the sensor out and wiped it, seems to be fine now. I saw a video online to help me, not got the link readily at hand though