I got my G2 today, and I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't messed too much with the hinge, but it seems pretty solid and I'm not very worried about it.
However, this evening, after a few hours of usage, I noticed the phone locked up hard, twice, within 30 minutes of each other. Within another 30 minutes, it rebooted itself spontaneously. This has me pretty worried, but I was in an area of the house where I only get edge, and reception goes in and out frequently. So its possible some type of radio reset thing was going on causing it to crash.
If that is the problem, I can probably deal with it. Hopefully its not a sign of a larger problem.
Another annoying thing happened to me later in the evening when I was trying to write an email. The cursor kept moving to different widgets on the screen or moving the text cursor up and down and left and right while I was writing the email, almost as if an invisible person was playing with the arrow keys. I realized I was sitting in such a way that the optical mouse was pointed directly at my ceiling light, so I'm guessing that was the problem, when I moved, I think the problem went away.
Anyway, just a word of caution to be on the lookout for similar behavior.
Let me know if you've seen anything like this with your G2.
Im having the same problem. I guess its just the way it senses "touch" (or light).
See my thread in this section (G2 Light Sensor Trackpad Issue), I can't post links yet. But there is a video in there showing why.
I think I can live with the cursor sensitivity, now that I know what it is and that other people have the same problem, I can just move the phone a bit and it will go away.
Its also something that can be tweaked or fixed in software hopefully.
The locking up / crashing worries me. If its just a bug with going in and out of radio signal, they can fix that in software too, but if it is a hardware problem, I'll be pretty pissed.
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A little background: I have the 2.17 ROM, never had any problems with it.
I have a strange thing going on with my End key ... I am the type of user who uses the End key frequently to return to the Today screen ... been doing it ever since I got the phone with no problems. In the last week, however, I've noticed quite a bit of lag when I use the end key to get to the today screen (used to be < 1 sec, now it's 3+ sec). The interesting part is that when it does finally get to the today screen, the phone let's out a soft beep, similar to the beep you get when the phone drops a call or the other party hangs up on you.
Kinda annoying and I would like to fix it if possible (the lag, the beep is no big deal but probably a good indication of what the problem is). Any thoughts?
Thanks!
- Chris
No one? This is still bugging me...
This, unfortunately, is "normal". The beeping has always been there on mine... and the lag builds up over time as you install more stuff and have more programmes chewing away at the processor and free RAM.
Solution?: Hard reset, uninstall stuff you dont need, etc...
I'm curious, because I'm new to this phone and smartphones/pocket pcs period, but is this phone quite buggy, or is it due to things I've added. I find that frequently if I do two things at once and it has to think too hard that title bars and such disappear and get stuck and I have to restart it to fix it. This affect seems to multiply if you happen to try to close the slider while it's busy thinking. Last night I got a call while writing an email and closed the slider to answer. By the time the call screen came up, it had already rang 4 times and gone to voicemail, and in the end, it was all messed up again and needed a reboot.
Maybe this is common to these phones, I've just never had one so I dunno. I'm sure the lack of memory plays a major part in how slow it runs when it has to do two things at once.
AJerman said:
I'm curious, because I'm new to this phone and smartphones/pocket pcs period, but is this phone quite buggy, or is it due to things I've added. I find that frequently if I do two things at once and it has to think too hard that title bars and such disappear and get stuck and I have to restart it to fix it. This affect seems to multiply if you happen to try to close the slider while it's busy thinking. Last night I got a call while writing an email and closed the slider to answer. By the time the call screen came up, it had already rang 4 times and gone to voicemail, and in the end, it was all messed up again and needed a reboot.
Maybe this is common to these phones, I've just never had one so I dunno. I'm sure the lack of memory plays a major part in how slow it runs when it has to do two things at once.
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Not having enough free ram can wreak havoc on the device. I've gotta say though that this has been one of the least buggy phones that I have dealt with. On average, how much free ram do you have? Anything less than about 14mb seems to send things to slow-ville for me
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Not having enough free ram can wreak havoc on the device. I've gotta say though that this has been one of the least buggy phones that I have dealt with. On average, how much free ram do you have? Anything less than about 14mb seems to send things to slow-ville for me
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Ever since installing X-Button and being more careful, I try to stay around 15mb. It doesn't seem like a memory issue though. It just seems like often programs wont open, close, or generally operate correctly, sometimes leaving artifacts of itself that can't be removed all over the screen forcing a reboot. Perhaps it's just something to get used to with a Pocket PC, it's not horrible, but every so often it gets a little annoying. I was just curious if it was perhaps caused by software I had installed, or if it was just normal to have issues every so often.
I too am finding it does that. Especially when moving from Portrait to landscape mode. Some times the old portrait screen will lock up and over lay the landscape screen. I just go in and stop some running programs.
But I've discovered an issue I can't seem to easily fix. Twice now the phone has shut off completely. Both times I have been asleep when this happened so I can't say what causes it. I don't have it set to go to sleep (at least I don't think so!) so I don't know what the issue is. Today I went to sleep about 6 hours and when I woke phone was completely off. Had to do a soft reset to start it. Power button wouldn't work at all. Then when it did finally come up it showed no new text or no new voice mail messages. I had new messages on both that were delivered after I fell asleep. Any ideas? Suggestions? I do have the slider/launcher program but neither were running when I went to bed today. The only app I kept running was call firewall. All others were closed out in running programs before I went to bed. Currently my memory is Storage free 29.39MB and Program free 21.12MB. At 1pm my battery was 70% and it is currently at 40%.
I have found that that problem happens only when blue tooth is on. I have started making sure that the bluetooth is off when not in use.
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Hello All:
This is my first post here but just reading around has solved many problems for me already. However, my phone (sprint mogul 8600) has been misbehaving and even a hard reset did not solve this problem.
My problem is that the stupid thing won't stay asleep, ruining my battery life and sanity. Is there a way to set it so that it will only wake on active decisions (incoming text, incoming call) and me pushing the power button? I've cruised option after option but I haven't been able to find anything useful.
It still functions properly when it should wake up, it just seems to wake up every few minutes on my desk and i think i have an incoming something to deal with. In the end I have just stopped paying attention and have missed lots of calls because of it.
My apologies if there is a faq that goes over this already, I looked but could not find.
Thanks in advance
Battery life goes down approximately 50% per 10 hrs because the phone turns on as if someone hit the power button at irregular intervals. Is the phone SUPPOSED to be able to turn on for reasons other than incoming messages or using the power button? Its driving me crazy, I can't even go out for a day because it will run out of battery.
Are you running a custom rom or stock rom? If stock, is the most up to date from your carrier? After you did the hard reset, did you test it before installing any cab files? It's possible one of the apps you are installing may cause this.
If it's the stock rom and you are installing nothing, I would say it's a defective phone.
I know on an old PDA I had years back at midnight every night it would turn on, it would do maintenance on my scheduler and then turn back off, but haven't seen my phone ever do this during normal hours.
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It has to be software on that rom or additional installed by you. If you haven't installed any software you might want to try flashing a custom rom and see if that takes care of it.
i have had the same problems with my ppc6800 and blackjack 2, i think it has to do with the changing networks... on my drive home from mass to maine it will do it in about 5 spots anyways consistantly. in my hotel in mass i get crappy reception and itll do it every now and then. this has been an issue with both phones. bugs the hell outta me on my trip home cus itll light up, then i grab it to figure out why and theres nothing... learned to live with it
I performed a hard reset after continued trouble with this. It will come on at least 1 time per hour, and as often as every 5 minutes, with absolutely nothing done to it short of initial calibration/data entry. It will also do this sitting on my desk, not moving or anything.
I suppose I could try a custom rom, but I fear I am opening pandora's box, as I am told these phones are on backorder if i happen to brick mine. Any recommendations for a new ROM to try?
This is normal.
Is this sufficient problem to get it replaced? A hard reset and nothing else and problem persists.
It's a win mobile "feature" since the early WinCE days. Every Palm-size/WinCE/WinMO device I've owned turned itself on from time to time. Now, it's blamed on network changes, mostly going in and out of EVDO coverage. When these were simple PDA's, it was blamed on internal housekeeping. If you corner a MS rep on the issue, they will blame the hardware and outside software vendors. I never believed them. Either get used to it or buy a device other than a WinMo based, it will never ever be fixed!
BTW, I'm in my basement where I get less than an ideal signal and my Mogul has turned on and off 3 times while I was typing this.
I have my phone sitting next to me in the cradle all night long, 2-3 hours before I go to bed I turn out the lights to either view my laptop easier or watch TV, if my phone was turning on I would know it because I would have bright light in my eyes.
So I would say it's not as common as you described in the 2-3 times while composing the email. Mine might turn on at midnight, tho I am usually asleep by then, so I can't say for sure, but the only time it turns on (that I know of) is when I receive a text message or a phone call. Emails don't wake up my phone. And I get 20-30 emails a day.
I am on a 1X only network, no EVDO here yet, so it could be an issue with EVDO, in my phone settings I have an option for Service Tone, that makes a beeping sound when I lose or regain service, might try turning that on and see if it's beeping when the phone is turning on. If so, it's a signal issue.
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I have this problem too and hate it. Every time I come out of the subway the phone turns on in my pocket. I cant drive at night with the phone facing up on the dash because it turns on every couple of mins. It's completely annoying, kills the battery and launches tons of programs, every once in a while it makes calls too. I would be very happy to get this "feature" taken off my phone!
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WinMo devices turning on all by themselves is the reason there are so many screen lock programs available. If you've got a WM device and plan to carry it in a confined pocket (like your pants) check out S2U2 or throttlelock. Your phone turns on when leaving the subway because it's aquiring a signal, it probably turned on while in the train while searching for signal too. While driving, you're probably passing in and out of 3G coverage which will also turn the device on. If you stay in a solid signal area, the phone will stay off for the most part, but that does negate the whole mobile thing a bit. The center of my basement where my home theater is gets a inconsistant 3G signal. My Mogul will turn on and off and kill the battery in a few hours. My wifes Palm, my friends BB's and iphones won't turn on once. Once again, the issue of WM/PocketPC/WinCE turning on for no apparent reason has been a c ommon complaint for years, at least to the Casio E105 days when I started on my WM journey. Since MS has never addressed the issue, I doubt they ever will.
I have never had the phone random come on from sleep. Leaving and entering coverage doesn't change that. I say you have something in the rom causing the problem or a program running in the background
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I have never had the phone random come on from sleep. Leaving and entering coverage doesn't change that. I say you have something in the rom causing the problem or a program running in the background
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You've never taken the phone out of a pocket or holster to find it already on? My 6700 on VZW did and I think I ran every ROM developed for it at one time or another, each of my 3 Moguls running various OEM and custom ROM's did/does. I've heard similar complaints from coworkers running various
WM devices. A friend I take the train with daily complained about this with his AT&T Tilt too. Both my non phone Axims (x5 & x51) occasionally turned on as did my Toshiba E805, Casio e100, e105 and e115. Every WinCE based device forum I have participated in over the years has featured complaints about WM turning on with no user interaction. Obviously, it's not a deal breaker for me, but it does happen...a lot. The issue in my basement is the extreme of the problem, move the phone towards the exterior walls and the phone reverts to only turning on and quickly off occasionally. Another example. When traveling by LIRR to Penn Station the phone will stay off even when entering the river tunnel ad traveling under Manhattan. At some point when I exit the station, the phone turns itself on. Since I'm walking in rush hour crowds, I've never tried to find at which exact point my Mogul turns on, but it's always on when I get my coffee in Borders Cafe.
I have never taken it out of my pocket and have it been turned on. It is always in sleep mode.
This also happens to me, i own a mogul, and this is really and extremely annoying.
i have test it for few months and this is my conclusion.
As you guys said already just wait for few min and it will turn on the screen, but also when i shake it and when you hit it.
it really is a battery killer.
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This also happens to me, i own a mogul, and this is really and extremely annoying.
i have test it for few months and this is my conclusion.
As you guys said already just wait for few min and it will turn on the screen, but also when i shake it and when you hit it.
it really is a battery killer.
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If it's turning on when you shake it, you probably have a hardware issue.
I keep having random split screen activation, as if I were long-pressing the Recents capacitive button... I've had this occur while the phone was laying on my desk/lap/just sitting in the palm of my hand, not touching anything. Thought it was me, just not used to the curved edge, until I put my phone in a case and still have the issue. My girlfriend doesn't have the issue at all with her S7 Edge, both purchased at the AT&T store on the 11th. I also noticed that her speaker bezel at the top of the phone is flush... mine is raised just a hair... anyone else having these issues? I've factory reset, which seems to have reduced the split screen activating, but it is still happening. I've also tried turning off some of the extra gestures and smart settings, but that didn't help either.
This has happened to me rarely, but it has.. also sometimes when scrolling down a webpage, it will randomly select a whole paragraph like i just long pressed the paragraph to copy text.. possible something caused by samsung using their own proprietary digitizer for the first time
Well, glad I'm not the only one. I'm contemplating returning it as defective....
Does your top speaker stick out at all or is it flush with the screen? I'm sure that has nothing to do with it of coarse... just something I noticed when comparing my Edge to the other one we got when upgrading.
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Well, glad I'm not the only one. I'm contemplating returning it as defective....
Does your top speaker stick out at all or is it flush with the screen? I'm sure that has nothing to do with it of coarse... just something I noticed when comparing my Edge to the other one we got when upgrading.
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Id say it sticks out a few milimeters, not much tho
nephillim said:
I keep having random split screen activation, as if I were long-pressing the Recents capacitive button... I've had this occur while the phone was laying on my desk/lap/just sitting in the palm of my hand, not touching anything. Thought it was me, just not used to the curved edge, until I put my phone in a case and still have the issue. My girlfriend doesn't have the issue at all with her S7 Edge, both purchased at the AT&T store on the 11th. I also noticed that her speaker bezel at the top of the phone is flush... mine is raised just a hair... anyone else having these issues? I've factory reset, which seems to have reduced the split screen activating, but it is still happening. I've also tried turning off some of the extra gestures and smart settings, but that didn't help either.
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Just downloaded an app from the store called "multi window toggle", works perfectly. No more random split screen. Only problem so far, you have to manually enable it after a restart.
Thanks for the tip! I'll give that toggle app a try and see if it helps!
Honestly, I really wish I could control what apps allow split screen... I think that alone would save me a ton of headache.
experiencing the same thing. hasn't affected my day to day usage in a negative way yet. it's indeed annoying
I really hope this is a software glitch, the thought of paying so much for electronics and having the nagging feeling that the device you got isnt as perfect as others that have been sold just makes me feel uneasy.. i dont want to send it for warranty although from past experience, samsung is very fast and fixing and returning your phone, the longest wait is the two way 2day shipping they provide.. i just want it to be working as intended! Just like you, i feel better that im not the only one, but id feel even better if there were MORE people experiencing this (does that make me a bad person?)
Same issue here
Also happening to me. I know this is the AT&T area, but I have the GS7 from TMobile. So is not just a unique to the AT&T variant. That app that some people has recomended to deactivate the split acreen feature works, but is not a permanent solution. Hope Samsung fix it in a software update... I hope is not a hardware issue.
I went to the T-Mobile store to try to exchange it for another one. Since the issue is hard to prove (it doesn't happen every time), casually, the person that helped me at the store was the manager (who was greeting the customers that came in). After describing the problem to her, she told me that T-Mobile had received an alert in their systems about this issue and that it appears to be a hardware problem. They exchange mine for free even when I had exceeded the 14 day window.
Just got off the phone with samsung and they said, get this, there are no reported issues with this device.. they gave me a ring around, wanted to remotely access my device and couldnt offer a valid reason why they would need to do that.. eventually in the end they refered me to exchange the device at at&t but with "no known issues" and being past the 14 day return time, i have a feeling im in for a huge headache at the at&t store... what a nightmare. Very disappointed in the first samsung phone ive ever purchased.. htc never did me wrong like this...
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What to do?
Will there be an update to fix this?
I don't know if i should go and exchange my s7 edge. I can't live with this random multi window for over a year.
But if they will fix it in an update, i dont want to send it to repair, in Denmark it will take over 2 weeks before you get a new one.
I Hope they will fix it in an update
Glad this isn't just me, the split screen popup is really starting to bother me. I also have issues when on a WiFi network, tether my car to the phone, then drive away, my WiFi breaks and I have to restart the phone to get data working. I called Rogers, my carrier in Canada, and they are not aware of it being a hardware/Samsung issue. The tech has heard of the split screen issues but said there is no recall on the device yet and it might be fixed with software. Unless anyone can confirm that replacing their device with a new one fixes this, I just might wait a bit.
split screen activating seems to occur most frequently when I first unlock the device. Other times it just activates randomly.
New update?
I just updated my galaxy s7 edge and it seems like most of the problems are gone. The touch sensitivity has been decreased it seems, the split screen has not activated yet.
It also seems like they turned a bit down for the animations.
I live in denmark, so i have the nordic updates.
Will report back here
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Hey guys!
Denmark just got a new update for the s7 and s7 edge called: XXU1APD1.
Hat it for 2 days now, and i have no random split screen activations. Other bugs are gone to!
Just had it happen to my AT&T S7. Phone was on my desk and on the home screen when the split screen activated without me pressing anything. Hopefully it gets fixed with the new XXU1APD1 update.
Had the latest software update two days ago for my S7 Edge, XXU1APD1, in the UK.
No more split screen random activations (I used to get it at least once a day often more).
So far so good.
Now if only AT&T would update us.... I'm glad that it appears to be a software glitch... i just about chucked my phone across the parking lot earlier because of that splitscreen crap... was getting ready to call Samsung this afternoon... I can not live with this on a brand new phone...
AT&T.... update your ****!!!!!!!
Ok. AT&T has actually released an update! Guess I jumped the gun fussing, I'm downloading it currently and will report back tomorrow (4/21) if I no longer have splitscreen issues. I really hope this fixes it!
As of yesterday about 1/3 of my screen is acting up randomly. It may flicker, it may be brighter or darker than the rest, or it may be fine. These states can change at any time but most of the time it is still fine. The area that is misbehaving, is above the PK when the slider is closed. Slider open/close has no effect on the screens behavior.
I have a STV100-1 (Nov2015) unlocked from BlackBerry on the AT&T network. It isn't rooted and is current on it's updates. I use a stock launcher and the PK. I have keyboard gestures turned off. My screen does not auto-dim. Although I can't shut off BatterySaver, I have set it so that it does nothing if it starts. I haven't dropped it recently and it does live in a case.
I have shut off advanced interactions and run VBE. I have rebooted as well as shuttting down and restarting.
I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is mostly crisp and clear. My Pre showed similar problems after water had gotten into my keyboard but my Priv has not had anything of the sort happen.
Any help would be appreciated.
Just an update.
Over several days the problem got worse. It got to where part of the screen was brighter and flickering all of the time.
Then suddenly, the other morning my Priv was fine and has been since.
I don't understand it. I can't find any updates or changes to coincide with the problem beginning or ending.
The only thing I can think of was the problem began when I tried to cancel my warranty/repair coverage and ended when I charged and set up my old phone expecting to loose my Priv. Conspiracy theories anyone?
Considering the timing of this to occur, I would assume that it was a terribly timed April Fools prank on you.
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I've got the same issue. Seems that it might be triggered for some after an OTA update. Resetting did not help. It comes and goes, but of late occupies all of the screen. Have you found a workaround?
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Just an update.
Over several days the problem got worse. It got to where part of the screen was brighter and flickering all of the time.
Then suddenly, the other morning my Priv was fine and has been since.
I don't understand it. I can't find any updates or changes to coincide with the problem beginning or ending.
The only thing I can think of was the problem began when I tried to cancel my warranty/repair coverage and ended when I charged and set up my old phone expecting to loose my Priv. Conspiracy theories anyone?
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amaan6999,
I'm sorry I never found an answer. My screen varies from perfectly fine to solid green. I tried tracking different factors and taking different actions but nothing is consistent.
When the screen is warmer it behaves better, so don't leave it in the cooler. (That's the only advice I have.)
I had a chance to buy a new unlocked STV100-1 on clearance, so that was my solution. I figure I have bought myself time before this one goes bad.
Good luck.