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I have encountered an unusual issue (bug?) on the HD and wondered if anyone else had seen the problem (and found a solution!)
First the issue:
When I rotate the device to landscape, applications initially rotate properly. However, after a few seconds the phone dialer screen appears (in landscape mode). It blinks once or twice (like the screen is redrawing) and stays there for perhaps five seconds before switiching back to the original app. However, even though the device is still held i landscape, the application is now in portrait mode too and the only way to get it back to landscape is to rotate the device back to portrait then to landscape again...at which point the whole cycle repeats.
Things I have tried to clear the problem:
So far, all I have tried is a soft reset, which I thought had cleared the problem at first. Sadly, however, it's back.
Repeatability and conditions:
I've only done one soft reset so far as I wanted to investigate a bit further first
It initially happened in Opera with GSen off (it is installed though)
It happens whether or not GSen is active
It happens in all applications, not just Opera (obviously GSen is active when it happens in other applications)
I don't have a HD (yet) but i've read somewhere that GSEN is not working correctly on the HD. There is suppused to be a tool called "Gyrator2" which does the same but is more stable on the HD.
regards jan
hausen said:
I don't have a HD (yet) but i've read somewhere that GSEN is not working correctly on the HD. There is suppused to be a tool called "Gyrator2" which does the same but is more stable on the HD.
regards jan
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May be an option, but I haven't had any problems with GSen and I seem to get the issue whether or not GSen is active. I have even had it in an instance where GSen had not been activated since the previous reboot.
Thanks for the thought though, I'll investigate...
please don't use GSen since it's heavily bugged atm for the HD.. Gyrator2 is an option even though consumes a lot of cpu power (device become slow whenever Gyrator2 rotates the screen)
iain.fraser said:
I have encountered an unusual issue (bug?) on the HD and wondered if anyone else had seen the problem (and found a solution!)
First the issue:
When I rotate the device to landscape, applications initially rotate properly. However, after a few seconds the phone dialer screen appears (in landscape mode). It blinks once or twice (like the screen is redrawing) and stays there for perhaps five seconds before switiching back to the original app. However, even though the device is still held i landscape, the application is now in portrait mode too and the only way to get it back to landscape is to rotate the device back to portrait then to landscape again...at which point the whole cycle repeats.
Things I have tried to clear the problem:
So far, all I have tried is a soft reset, which I thought had cleared the problem at first. Sadly, however, it's back.
Repeatability and conditions:
I've only done one soft reset so far as I wanted to investigate a bit further first
It initially happened in Opera with GSen off (it is installed though)
It happens whether or not GSen is active
It happens in all applications, not just Opera (obviously GSen is active when it happens in other applications)
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Will the problem go away if you uninstall GSEN? I mean, not just making it inactive, but to completely remove it.
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Will the problem go away if you uninstall GSEN? I mean, not just making it inactive, but to completely remove it.
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Annoyingly enough (in one way) I've not had the issue since I soft reset a few hours ago. I'm keeping a close eye to see if i can trap what I have been doing just before the issue recurs.
I have suspicions about PCM Contacts but have no good reason to, other than the fact the problem started at roughtly the same time as I installed the latest version.
Next step is to try removing GSen, as you suggest, but I want the issue to recur first to see if I can make some sense of what's happening...
The problem isn't with Gsen.
This happened to me while browsing, it just kept flicking back to portrait and then coming out of Opera.
As a result I thought I'd install Gsen and everything worked perfectly for about an hour. I left the phone (locked) for a while to attend to a few other things and then it started again.
Now I've not had the phone long 10 days or so but I have installed a lot of cabs and applications. At first I thought it might be a bug on the HD but unfortunately it could be anything.
What I will say is that I didn't have this problem before I added new tab icons (manilla), installed Schaps AC or changed the calc skin. Gsen was next on my list.
A soft reset seemed to work for me.
Hope this helps.
Mav.
Switching the phone on and off seems to clear the problem for a while. Anyone solved this?
My solution
Just wanted to say that i had this exact problem.
Fugured it had to be a problem with som custom stuff i had installed, and so it was.
Started uninstalling backwards from the last installed thing, and found that the problem was caoused by a custom status icon cab I installed.
Named Colored Top Bar WWE ST.cab
If you have something similar, this could be the problem.
(BTW, I'm not bashing the author of this file at all. Everyone should know that installling custom stuff is your own responsibility)
Mavrick said:
The problem isn't with Gsen.
This happened to me while browsing, it just kept flicking back to portrait and then coming out of Opera.
As a result I thought I'd install Gsen and everything worked perfectly for about an hour. I left the phone (locked) for a while to attend to a few other things and then it started again.
Now I've not had the phone long 10 days or so but I have installed a lot of cabs and applications. At first I thought it might be a bug on the HD but unfortunately it could be anything.
What I will say is that I didn't have this problem before I added new tab icons (manilla), installed Schaps AC or changed the calc skin. Gsen was next on my list.
A soft reset seemed to work for me.
Hope this helps.
Mav.
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i cannot conclusively say if it's a problem with GSEN or not. but i had the exact same problem with GSEN installed, but not activated. i couldn't solve the problem so i did a hard reset (i didn't bother uninstalling gsen and try it again). i don't have problems anymore, but i do have all my old applications installed, except for GSEN. i currently do not have gyrator or any other screen rotating app installed. i don't have a need for them at the moment. so i don't conclude anything, you can deduce from here.
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J
Fugured it had to be a problem with som custom stuff i had installed, and so it was.
Started uninstalling backwards from the last installed thing, and found that the problem was caoused by a custom status icon cab I installed.
Named Colored Top Bar WWE ST.cab
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I have the same Top Bar and don't have the issue you guys have been describing.
my problem is kinda similar but a little different, my opera works fine w/ landscape and portrait, but when I try to access My Faviorite in landscape mode, it would only display in portrait even though I was holding it landscape and the second half of the screen was still the page content. it's weird and I still didn't got time to do a hard reset first, any one experience this?
I have this issue (damnit), and I am using those color-top-bar-icons. However, I have never been using GSen, I am using gyrator 2. Can anybody confirm that it is top-bar-icons that's causing the problem?
I have the issue and I don't have the top bar colored icons installed.
I do have Gyrator 2 but the problem still occurs when Gyrator 2 is not running.
I don't know why it occurs and it goes away by itself...seems sporadic.
I got Gyrator2 on mine too, but I don't see people in Gyrator thread complaining about this happening...um...do I really need a hard reset for this?
(by the way, I disable all rotation and only enable the programs I used, of course Opera is disabled)
update from mine, I just did a hard reset the the landscape favorite in Opera still got messed up, so I restored my device and gave up. gotta wait for new official ROM maybe...
I first experienced this problem when I last installed TouchIt 3.01.
When I slide out the keyboard on my X1, the screen semms to freeze. Nothing happens. The screen stays in portrait mode and does not accept any input on it. When I close my phone i can interact with it without any problems.
I installed the Stock Rom, but still the same.
Anyone has an idea how to solve this?
If it happens on multiple ROMs, including stock, I'd almost think there's a hardware problem. Try hard resetting - if it keeps happening, have your unit checked.
This was my guess too but I hoped someone had a solution without sending the device back to SE.
Hello there!
I have an interesting problem with my X1. I don't know what I did but my X1 takes like 7 seconds from the moment I open the slide to the moment it goes into landscape mode. This happens in any situation (even if i just restarted the phone and I'm in programs for ex.).
The crazy thing about this is that I had this problem before and I only got rid of it by getting a new ROM.
I have since made regular backups (with resco backup) in case this problem would reemerge. The thing is that even if I restore the backup (i had backup everything except the memory card) the problem doesn't go away.
Oh...landscape to portrait works just fine (almost instantaneous)
Any ideas on what I could do?
Thanks
I'm afraid it is normal behaviour especially when you have a SE Panel with MANY icons of apps on it.
Mine has 25 icons and also takes some time until all is loaded.
I don't think its that. It lags whether I'm on the today screen, in programs, in a different panel, in a game, etc. And it's always the same amount of time.
So i slide it open, the keyboard lights up, but nothing happens for like 7 seconds.
On the other hand if I rotate the screen manually (via spb pocket plus 4 shortcut), the rotation is done instantaneously...no lag no nothing...
So u see...i don't think its normal.
Right, it's not OK.
Apps switch instantly....
It must be something you installed on your X1
There were no new apps installed... And as i said...i had a backup (from when it worked instantaneously) which i restored and that didn't help either.
Any ideas?
hard reset hopefully could clear your problem
LOL...thanks Why didn't I think of that ?
I have a problem with rotation to landscape that cropped up a while back and I haven't gotten around to posting about it.
I use Artemis ROM, and a while ago upon updating to v2.5 I started to encounter this weird rotation issue (details later). I figured it was just an issue with that version of the ROM, so I waited. Plus I don't use landscape that much, so it wasn't an issue.
6 hours ago I flashed v6.0, and now I'm having the same issue still, so I don't think it's the ROM.
The issue is this: When I turn the phone on, everything is fine, for 6 hours to a day. After that whenever I turn the phone to rotate it to landscape (in any application under any circumstances until I reboot the phone) it'll rotate for ~1 second, and the flip back to portrait.
The device is still rotated to where it should be in landscape when this occurs.
I became suspicious that it was a problem with the accelerometer, so I experienced the problem, and then immediately played Teeter, and Teeter was 100% normal.
Any solutions, I'd really appreciate it, as it's bugging me now that it's cropped up in a much later version.
+1........quoto ; )
I did a hard reset a few days ago and had exactly the same problem when browsing Opera 9.7 in landscape. It would sit in landscape until I touched the screen to move it, then it would switch back to portrait immediately.
I recalibrated the G-sensor and did a soft reset and it's been fine ever since.
Kalavere said:
I recalibrated the G-sensor and did a soft reset and it's been fine ever since.
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Have you soft reset it since then?
Because the problem -- for me -- isn't there when I first power the device on, it appears sometime later and won't go away until I soft reset.
Other than that the ROM is perfect.
BTW, I switched to EnergyROM from Artemis, and the problem occurred again this morning...
for me with artemis 7.0 same problem
Make sure a program that only works in portrait is not running in the background.
This happened to me when I figured out it was actually the Flashlight app running in the background still.
Try closing the programs you have in the background, if needed with a task manager.
Maybe it comes from the Flashligt. Try to close the Flashligt with taskmanager.
Spike15 said:
Have you soft reset it since then?
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Aye, multiple times, the recalibration and first soft reset fixed it for me and I haven't had the problem since.
Taco123 said:
Maybe it comes from the Flashligt. Try to close the Flashligt with taskmanager.
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Thank-you so much!
Artemis 2.5 was where the Flashlight app was added -- before that I used TorchLight, which I'll going back to now -- and because of its long "warm up" (that stupid animation...amy way to disable that?) I would leave it open in the background.
I just tested, opening the Flashlight, trying the rotation -- which caused the problem -- then closing it and trying it -- which solved it.
Because I like landscape for the calculator and typing, this was crippling to me, now it's figured out and I can get back to loving my phone!
Is there a way to reload the keyboard after it force closes in landscape mode? Other than restarting the phone?
Is anyone else having this issue a lot?
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App
Does this sound like your problem?
tilt4life2 said:
Just want to bring this up and see if anyone else ran into the problem.
I am using B003 and when I am in landscape typing, I get an error sometimes saying the keyboard had a problem. I can still type, but the text won't show up. But if I switch to portrait, then I can see the text I typed while in landscape and I can also type normally while in portrait (meaning I can see the text I type). But if I go back to landscape, again, I can type, but it won't show up in landscape and it will in portrait. This happened to me 4 times today. I think it fixed itself or I had to turn phone off and back on.
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I was also interested in seeking if others were experiencing this problem. It happened to me a lot two days ago, didn't happen at all yesterday, and then happened once today. I have to turn off the phone for it to fix itself.
Are you on stock rom?
tilt4life2 said:
Does this sound like your problem?
I was also interested in seeking if others were experiencing this problem. It happened to me a lot two days ago, didn't happen at all yesterday, and then happened once today. I have to turn off the phone for it to fix itself.
Are you on stock rom?
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Yeah, I am on stock rom at the moment. It did it quite a few times on me last night, and it was a pain in the A!
I read a lot of posts where people are mentioning this issue. Personally I have not experienced any force closes on landscape or portrait mode while typing, however I do notice the keyboard can get very laggy at times when in landscape mode.
pcruz said:
I read a lot of posts where people are mentioning this issue. Personally I have not experienced any force closes on landscape or portrait mode while typing, however I do notice the keyboard can get very laggy at times when in landscape mode.
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there are instances where it will force close, and you can see the auto correct type come up, and until you put a , or a . in the sentence and hit space, it will show up the text as well...
pain in the a!!!
It happened to me again and I think I might have isolated the problem. This keeps happeing to me when I type a long message in landscape. Usually when I think the 170 mark, it will crash on me.
Its not that isolated, seems to happen more ofter when you type long messages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725783
Here is another item I noticed today because I texted a lot today during work and it crashed on me multiple times. I do the Clear Data rather than reset the phone and each time, I noticed that the data is at 68 kb. Could this have something to do with it? Anyway to test and see if the 68 kb has anything to do with the crash?