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Anyone have Evo that glows in the dark?

a lot of people are reporting this problem when the phone is off
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/106893-i-just-notied-my-evo-glows-dark.html
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Here is the problem on a 002 15 second exposure in complete darkness.
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The way I see ut is that the button panel has its own backlight and is meant to turn on in complete darkness, but some evo's do it when the phone is off given enough power since the panel's software run a separate lower powered chip, but I'm no engineer. It can be fixed with a firmware update, probably.

Mine did this once. I turned it back on and killed a bunch of apps with advanced task killer, and then it quit. Think it was just a fluke because it hasn't happened since.. and that was about a week ago. If it's happening constantly even after reboots, I'd assume you have installed something that is acting retarded in the background.

actually it's not a software problem... I hard reseted and kepted the phone clean and checked at night. still LED problem being lit. I took it to a store and they are willing to replace the phone

Yes this happens to me alot and i have to remove the battery and put it back in i left the phone like that for 10 minutes and i click every button but does not come back on so have to remove the battery

My wife's has been doing that and it will not stop. Ive rebooted cleaned all apps and nothing. I'm trying to return it but am waiting for bestbuy to call me when they get more phones. Any one have a solution?
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I have the opposite problem. Mine never seem to turn on in complete darkness. >_<

I just noticed this for the first time last night. Haven't seen it before or since.
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I have the opposite problem. Mine never seem to turn on in complete darkness. >_<
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wish i had that problem. i really have no need for back lights on the menu. the bleed they cause is terrible when looking at dark movies.
on the droid, in froyo at least, the menu buttons dim when watching a movie or you can use LEDsHack to turn off the lights.

I posted this issue a couple days ago and got no replies. I have noticed this issue on my phone. Sometimes pressing volume up/down will cause the lights to come on too.
I wonder if this is the cause of poor battery life. It's almost as if the light sensor is still functioning when the phone is supposed to be sleeping.

I noticed this also on both mine and my girls 0002 models... You can see it during the day too if you cup your hands around the bottom of the screen just over the buttons and look under. Wasn't sure what that was all about. Looks like just another glitch to me.

Is this good enough reason to request exchange? Does this drain battery faster in any way?

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Is this good enough reason to request exchange? Does this drain battery faster in any way?
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yes it is a good reason. kills battery

delete please.. double post

I thought the whole time that the "glow in the dark" was a feature. Its something I certainly don't mind, as I have found it rather useful.
But since its not a feature... then... defect? Haha. Well, this EVO is going back to the store anyway.

Using a broken phone, a life story

Hello, I've been best friends with my Atrix since a little over a year now. We have had many experiences together and our relationship has bloomed a lot with time. I confess I haven't completely looked after my phone, I'm a little clumsy, specially if I don't get to sleep enogh. So almost a month ago, after getting up very early, I was reading a notification when my phone fell. I tried to grab it but I pushed it even more. It went straight to a cornered tile on my bathroom. This was the result:
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And trust me, it's much worst in person than you can see there. Surprisingly enough the touchscreen works just as fine as it always did, even the notification area works fine (the top of the screen has been the more affected area), although I can't use the front camera anymore because there's a big scratch on top of it. Also something happened to the headphone jack because I can't use it anymore. Regardless of all this, the phone itself keeps working like a charm. I have been unemployed for a couple of months now, have a couple of bad debts so I don't have any money to fix it for the time being, so I have no choice but to use it like this.
But I have two weird errors, which has caused me to write this. The first one is related to the proximity sensor. Everytime I answer a call, the screen turns off as it should, but after the call end the screen doesn't come back on and there's no way for me to turn it, so I have to pull the battery and reset it. I tried to mark the option for the screen not to turn off when I pick a call but it keeps doing it regardless, so I suppose what I should do is to try to take the phone apart and see what's happening on the inside.
This pulling of the battery has led me to the discovery of the second error which I think it's the most interesting: 1 out of maybe 20 times that I do that, for whatever reason, a random app gets uninstalled from my phone. The first time it happened I blamed the app (growlr was the first), but then I saw it happened to Twitter, then to Google Plus, then to Script Manager. And it's not like it gets deleted completely, if I go to the app manager I can see it on the list but not with the regular name (ie: com.twitter.whatever instead of just Twitter). I'm using Neutrino but I'm not sure if I could blame the system, I think it's caused from the battery pulling in the same way turning off a computer by force can produce errors on the file system.
So has any of you come across problems like these before? Do you have any suggestions?

is my touchscreen broken?

Please take a look at this picture. This is "pointer location" option in Developer Options. The red line is an arch I made with a single stroke, but as you see it is broken in two places. There is a part on the screen where it happens at the entire width of display. It is not constant, but happens many, many times a day. I also get screen freezes, and ghost touches which run apps, make random phone calls, etc.
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Please take a look at this picture. This is "pointer location" option in Developer Options. The red line is an arch I made with a single stroke, but as you see it is broken in two places. There is a part on the screen where it happens at the entire width of display. It is not constant, but happens many, many times a day. I also get screen freezes, and ghost touches which run apps, make random phone calls, etc.
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I think this is a known symptom of degradation for the Nexus 4. Two of my friends already had this problem and nothing but a replacement screen could fix their problems. As I did research for them I came across many people who suffered from the same issues.

I have the same problem , it'a just about a month that is happening and it doesn't recognize the right part of the screen

Here I have the same problem, about 1 month ago started to have some touch parts dead, but it has been worsening, now its almost useless.

I too had the same problem. I had to change the screen. It cost about £30 from ebay for a new one. On the replacement I noticed that the version number of the screen was higher and also the manufacturing date was a few months younger than the broken original. Also the digitizer lines look different when light shines on them. Perhaps they realized that there was an issue with some of the earlier models.

Surprisingly the issue lessened for me. It is not gone completely, but for the last 5-6 days it does not happen as often as it used to, now maybe only once a day. A week ago I started using _only_ the original charger. I had read somewhere that a faulty battery or charger may be causing erratic screen. Not sure if the change of charger has anything to do with it, or if that's just a fluke.

Should I try to save my black screen nexus 4?

Hello people.
I need help to decide if I should try to save my nexus 4 or not. It has been dismantled for the past half a year and i recently got it to show signs of life after battling the steady red ring of death. (Was simple by the way, just used a wireless charger for a couple of minutes) But if I turn it on, it vibrates, the screen lights up and that is just about it. So i have no idea if the phone itself is functional. Some of you might tell me not to bother with such an old phone, hell, they aren't even sold anymore. But this phone has stuck by me through thick and thin, and has a sentimental value. I nearly jumped of joy when it showed signs of life after such a long time. I am not a rich man, so i need to manage my finances. Screen replacement would cost me 25 pounds, back housing would be another 10, but what if the phone is still not functional? Is there any way I can find out if I should take the gamble?
Some info -
I am not entirely sure if there is an OS currently installed on the device, as I was experimenting quite a bit before the battery run its coure.
I am also missing one of the connector things that are circled (there is one and a broken spot where another one should be) but i have no idea what it connects to. The little peg itself is safe and sound in my possession, if it can be welded back. It connects to whatever is under the power button on the back housing.
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The screen is cracked in three places, but was working the last time I remember. But there have been many (and I mean many) dis and re assemblies since then.
I probably love this phone more than my friends and family. Just want my favourite piece of tech to be my companion again.

Could the red light be due to a dead battery?

audit13 said:
Could the red light be due to a dead battery?
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Thankls for the reply. The battery is new and the red light issue is sorted. The phone just doesnt do much more other than vibrate and light up the screen. How do i know if it is still worth investing money in is the real question.

Graphical Glitches .. !? (due to cold temperatures..?)

Hello guys , i would like to know whether anyone else has experienced any type of graphical glitches on their 6p.
the thing is , i had a Nexust 6 (Moto) last year, and during cold temperature it would get a split screen bug few times every few hours and it was very annoying.
the only fix for it was to use a custom kernel with 'interactive' governors.
the kernel that worked best for me to get rid of that graphical glitch was Lean Kernel.
but my 6p thankfully is not getting the splitting screen graphical glitch, but instead it just looks like the picture of whatever app i am in just gets smashed into each other (sorry i dont know how to explain!).
it basically glitches for a second and is back to normal , and it happens like a couple of times per day, happened only recently after the weather here got cold.
is this a common thing with the 6p? i am now wondering whether i should try lean kernel with it ,as i am currently using flash kernel.
hm, at first i thought it was because of a profile i used on my 6p so i disabled profiles, then i thought it could be caused by the theme (cm13) so i reverted theme to stock.
but the random occasional graphic glitch was still there.
hope someone can shed some light on this for me.

Only if you could explain it a lil more maybe a screenshot or something

What kind of temperatures?
Phones usually last fine till about -15 celsius, beyond that intense screen ghostings (maybe this is what you meant?) start appearing, phone turns slow in general and battery dies very fast also causing permanent damage to the battery.
If it is the screen ghosting then that is perfectly normal and usually dissapears when it gets warm again, but I can not confirm as I have no 6P nor have had any amoled phones.
Does the glitch show up on screenshots? Or is it only visible physically?

tauio111 said:
What kind of temperatures?
Phones usually last fine till about -15 celsius, beyond that intense screen ghostings (maybe this is what you meant?) start appearing, phone turns slow in general and battery dies very fast also causing permanent damage to the battery.
If it is the screen ghosting then that is perfectly normal and usually dissapears when it gets warm again, but I can not confirm as I have no 6P nor have had any amoled phones.
Does the glitch show up on screenshots? Or is it only visible physically?
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its only physically visible, i think it is because of the app Twitter..
when i open it up ,that graphical glitch appears for a split second, it looks like the app itself makes the screen shimmery? i dont know how to explain it, but yes i think it was twitter.
but then again, i think it is what you stated, screen ghosting.
and that stuff is normal ? if so then all is good, thanks!

@Prattham and @tauio111 sorry guys ,pretty late on providing screenshot.
i happen to have one where it took place, the graphic glitch.
it ocassionaly still does happen..
turned out it is not at all because of cold temp.
it is stupidly hot right now, haha.
and btw. it also happens more often when i go switching too fast between apps with the recents button.
and also at times when i scroll.(with scrolling happens way more rarely though).
here is the picture , look at how the picture in the youtube app (official one) mashes into each other.
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