I am running stock android 2.2.1 on my N1. Since last night, I've noticed that my home screen would reorient itself according to whichever way my phone was being held. It even did upside down. I thought that screen orientation only worked inside apps and not the home screen. I restarted the phone just now and the glitch is gone. Having the ability to reorient the home screen does not matter to me, but I'm very curious as to why and how it occurs.
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Ever since I dropped my phone a few days ago my home button has stopped working, sort of. If I reboot my phone holding home and back, it goes to recovery. If I click the home button while the button backlights are off, it turns them on. If the device is sleeping, it wakes it. The home button doesn't do anything else. If I want to exit say, the browser, I have to click back until I get back home (really annoying). I can't longpress it to get to recent apps. I have a feeling that something might have gotten disconnected when I dropped it, so the I'm guessing the only permanent fix to that would be to disassemble the entire phone as replace/reconnect whatever is missing. What's weird though is that the button still registers occasionally on logcat but it never does what it's supposed to.
Also, my lockscreen is gone. As in, the device will go to sleep, and as soon as I press the button it will turn on, completely skipping my lockscreen. I have a feeling that these two problems might be related. The problems both happened on the latest cm nightly and on an old nandroid I had of chromatic 3.9.1. For now, I will just have to remap the camara key as my home button and use lockbot. I hate how school has taken away most of my free time, so I can't just mess with it till I fix it like I used to before. Tomorrow when I have more time I'm going to try a full wipe and flash of a clean rom (maybe donut lol), a radio reflash, smacking the phone around a little, maybe a few or things. Any other suggestions?
OK I've had this happen to me for at least three days now and it's finally to the point where I'm posting to see if anyone else has experienced it. I use the Vega in landscape virtually all the time and because of that I lock it in that orientation. However, once or twice an hour the screen will briefly flip to portrait (power button would be on the left in that orientation) then back to landscape. It's very brief and as I said it flips back just as quickly but it's very annoying. It has happened while watching videos too which is more annoying as it takes longer than a browser to change orientation while playing.
I've tried recalibrating it, rebooting the tablet and everything short of reflashing the ROM. I'm really hoping to avoid reflashing to test it as I've finally got the screen calibrated to an almost perfect level thanks to the other calibration app on the MoDaCo forums. Has anyone else had this behaviour before? If so, have you found a fix?
I do not have your exact problem but something similar. Just now I picked mine up and screen was upside down (when the device was right side up i.e. buttons at top and right). I checked the rotation button and it was not locked. When I rotate the device it will not switch rotation at all - when I go into settings and turn off auto-rotation it flips right-side up. It seems like the accelerometer is knackered but it would seem to be working in order to flip it when auto-rotation is switched off. The daft thing is that in various screens it flips to being right side up. It boots up the right way round and the lock screen is the right way round but as soon as unlocked it flips upside down. I too have tried rebooting and all sorts - thinking of flashing it as a last resort.
I seem to have fixed this now. I use quickboot and on a whim rather using my reboot shortcut I used power off. I then used the power button to start up with the rotation lock switched on - when I turned it off once booted it was back to normal. I suspect the rotation switch bit was a red herring - I reckon the shutdown/restart fixed it.
settngs>g sensor>games mode can cause some accelerometer antics try turning on and off
What does the gsensor mode do when activated, as I haven't seen any difference?
I've been having issues with the navigation keys on my Nexus 6P and I'm hoping someone can give me some insight on how to remedy the issue. My 6P worked fine up until a week or so ago, I was running Pure Nexus with Elemental X kernel and all things were good. I decided to try the N Preview so I went back to stock and updated OTA. After a few days of running rooted N Preview I noticed that my soft keys were no longer responsive. I factory reset the device and was happy to see that the < > keys at the bottom of the screen functioned during the set-up process so I figured my issue was resolved. However, when I get to the home screen the navigation keys are again unresponsive. This area of the screen functions in the lock screen as well, but when the bottom transitions into the soft keys it goes unresponsive. I have flashed a number of different rooms, wiped user data, went back to completely stock and consistently the bottom of the screen works in TWRP recovery and during the set up process, but once the OS loads the navigation keys don't work. To be specific, they don't work at the bottom of the screen, when rotated to appear on the sides or top of the screen they work fine. Any ideas?
So I managed to drop my phone a couple of weeks ago and crack the screen. The screen itself has remained fully functional despite a couple of purple lines down it and progressively worse flickering. It;s gradually started becoming more unresponsive and tonight it seems to have had enough. The stay on screen still display the time and if I press the lock key it will show me my lock screen and my notifications, I can swipe and remove these and if drag them down to read them further.
However, when I actually unlock my phone to go to my home screen, the phone screen goes black - I know the phone has unlocked because I can hear the sound effects when I press apps but everything remains black and I can't get the screen to come alive again until I lock the phone. If I double tap the home button, it will quick launch my camera and that works. So essentially the screen still works but won't show me my home screen or any apps (apart from camera), it's essentially blacked out until I lock it again.
I'm getting it repaired but am not able to do so for a few days. Any ideas how I can bring the screen back to life when I unlock the phone? I tried restarting a few times, leaving it turned off for a while and emergency mode - none of which worked.
Hi,
I've found a lot of posts about the second screen but not for the main screen.
I have a LG V20 US996 unlocked and rooted. I also have a case that covers the sides and back.
I usually wear t-shirts with a deep chest pocket (Carhartt) where I keep my phone, screen in. When I'm outside working listening to music on bluetooth headphones (mostly with Poweramp), the main screen randomly turns on. I notice this when the music starts jumping or skipping tracks because my chest is now randomly pressing spots on the main screen. When I look at the phone, what's on the screen is always some random app that started. It doesn't seem to correspond to any notifications as it does it when there are none. The default second screen when the main screen is off is the date and time.
I tried completely disabling the double-tap to turn on and off the main screen (both in the android and Nova Launcher settings) but that didn't help. Nor did making sure the phone was locked as a few seconds later, the main screen would turn on again.
Am I missing any other settings or secret screen presses that might turn the main screen on? If not, does anyone know of an app or Xposed module (if it's available for the V20/Nougat; I haven't checked yet) that might turn off the main screen except when explicitly turned on?
Thanks!
-Jeff
feretio said:
Hi,
I've found a lot of posts about the second screen but not for the main screen.
I have a LG V20 US996 unlocked and rooted. I also have a case that covers the sides and back.
I usually wear t-shirts with a deep chest pocket (Carhartt) where I keep my phone, screen in. When I'm outside working listening to music on bluetooth headphones (mostly with Poweramp), the main screen randomly turns on. I notice this when the music starts jumping or skipping tracks because my chest is now randomly pressing spots on the main screen. When I look at the phone, what's on the screen is always some random app that started. It doesn't seem to correspond to any notifications as it does it when there are none. The default second screen when the main screen is off is the date and time.
I tried completely disabling the double-tap to turn on and off the main screen (both in the android and Nova Launcher settings) but that didn't help. Nor did making sure the phone was locked as a few seconds later, the main screen would turn on again.
Am I missing any other settings or secret screen presses that might turn the main screen on? If not, does anyone know of an app or Xposed module (if it's available for the V20/Nougat; I haven't checked yet) that might turn off the main screen except when explicitly turned on?
Thanks!
-Jeff
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If you're using the second screen, it too can turn the screen on, particularly anything that launches an app or long pressed on something on the second screen. Unless of course you're not using the second screen?
Critical Detox said:
If you're using the second screen, it too can turn the screen on, particularly anything that launches an app or long pressed on something on the second screen. Unless of course you're not using the second screen?
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The proximity sensor should turn off the second screen when covered, along with disabling knockon and requiring you to push power button twice just to wake the screen(try this out at home). If for some reason this doesn't occur, you probably have a defective model.
It does appear to function the way you describe. If I double-tap the second screen, it turns on. However, if I cover the proximity sensor, the second screen turns off, double-tapping doesn't turn anything on but as you said, I need to press the power button on the back twice to turn it on.
Every now and then when I peek into my pocket, the second screen is indeed off. I need to pull the phone out enough for the second screen to come back on to see the time. I'm still not sure what might be turning the main screen on while it's in my pocket, though.
-Jeff