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HD2 Bug: No Standby mode, screen always on

Hello
My HD2 Worked well for a long time, but now everytime I press the "sleep" key it turns off for half a second then turns back on and proudly displays the lockscreen without me pressing anything. There is no way to turn the screen off and go in standby mode anymore.
Obviously the battery drains so much faster from not being able to have the screen off and this silly problem actually makes the phone unusable
I flashed a few roms using HardSPL and now HSPL2. I'm currently running Artemis 11.0, the problem appeared may days after flashing while using Artemis ROM 9.0. A hard reset seemed to fix it but the problem reappeared. Today flashing 11.0 only solved the problem at first boot.
Anyone had that before? Not sure if it's software/rom related or not anymore. HELP

As far as Ive seen, its only you an me who have had this problem so far.
Honestly, Im relieved to see someone else with this problem.
I had exactly as you described, but using Axlor roms.
It worked fine for 1/2months, then all of a suddon the screen backlight wouldnt go off, but a reset fixed it.
But it got worse and worse.
Now nothing will work...
Ive taken everything back to stock, and i mean EVERYTHING! Not a single app installed.
And I still have this problem. I've tried it all.
I think its a warrenty job....
EDIT:
I also noticed the backlight will go off fine when the phone is charging, is that the same for you?
I just sent the phone off to Tmob today, to see if they can fix/replace it.
I'll keep you informed.

Same problem. Was running fine on stock ROM 1.66 then backlight did not dim and would not go into standby. Put into standby, screen goes off then straight back on to the lock screen. Since then have had other problems at boot, sometimes it locks on HTC white screen needing battery removal, sometimes launches straight into Navipanel and will not exit, HTC sense homescreen sometimes launches in landscape and will not go into normal portrait mode. Reflashed with different ROM's same symptoms persist so have returned to Vodafone UK under warranty, fingers crossed.

i've had this on early versions of the rom i use, the chef fixed it, making me think its the software, not your phone.

I experienced this issue when I minimised a game called virtual pool. Closing it in task manager would then allow me to permanently make the phone sleep.

samsamuel said:
i've had this on early versions of the rom i use, the chef fixed it, making me think its the software, not your phone.
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How come Ive still got the problem after reflashing several times and taking everything back to exactly as it came from the box?

flannco said:
Same problem. Was running fine on stock ROM 1.66 then backlight did not dim and would not go into standby. Put into standby, screen goes off then straight back on to the lock screen. Since then have had other problems at boot, sometimes it locks on HTC white screen needing battery removal, sometimes launches straight into Navipanel and will not exit, HTC sense homescreen sometimes launches in landscape and will not go into normal portrait mode. Reflashed with different ROM's same symptoms persist so have returned to Vodafone UK under warranty, fingers crossed.
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I too have had the navi panel problem.
Im praying they fix mine under warrenty

Yes the problem is exactly what you describe, hard reset and flashing to a stock rom doesn t fix it with no programm running in the background
Navipanel seems to be on randomly sometimes so can I guess it could be related.
I found a fix, after starting the phone, plugging and unplugging the usb cable to the phone WHILE THE SCREEN IS ON fixes it but only until the next restart
Considering sending it for warranty now.
Thanks for replies! If anybody knows more let us know

Update re standby problem
Got my phone back from Vodafone UK today. Was advised software corrupted and that they had reflashed and it had been fully tested and was now working fine.
On power up (even without SD card or SIM) it had exactly the same fault as before, when put into sleep mode the screen comes back on after about 1 second.
I tried the plug in and remove USB lead fix and this also works for me until the next restart so it would seem that this must be a hardware problem.

flannco said:
Got my phone back from Vodafone UK today. Was advised software corrupted and that they had reflashed and it had been fully tested and was now working fine.
On power up (even without SD card or SIM) it had exactly the same fault as before, when put into sleep mode the screen comes back on after about 1 second.
I tried the plug in and remove USB lead fix and this also works for me until the next restart so it would seem that this must be a hardware problem.
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I have a feeling mines going to come back from tmob in the same state i sent it in...
What other options do with have if they sent it back without fixing it?

any info? I still have not had mine back.

bump... any more infos on this?

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bump... any more infos on this?
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Ive noticed allot more people getting this problem. So its not only us.
Tmob are replacing mine, so Im guessing its out of our control now.

did any of you guys try performing a task 29 in between flashing roms? it may help

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did any of you guys try performing a task 29 in between flashing roms? it may help
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Actually no, I overlooked it.
Probably would have been a good idea
Prehaps thats worth a try Mr Opr

CrocMonsieur said:
I found a fix, after starting the phone, plugging and unplugging the usb cable to the phone WHILE THE SCREEN IS ON fixes it but only until the next restart
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Thanks for this workaround. Now with the urgency gone hopefully somebody finds a lasting solution without the need of sending it in..

I have same problem guys after 4 months using. ...and my HD2 is unusable with no standby. I mean battery gets weak during 2-3 hours. Whats your guess guys is it software problem. Cause Im afraid of this is hardware prob because after reset goes my device in wrong state.
Help!

Sadly I'm running into this same error with my t-mobile hd2....getting serious power drain...can anyone confirm if the task 29 helped at all? Mine won't stay off for more than 30 seconds.
** Found out the google easy sms beta app I was running had a service which was causing the app to come out of standby...uninstalling this app cured the problem.

For me, it was a sd slot problem. When i removed the sd card, phone always waked up after 0.5 seconds, and card was detected as bad.
Now the SD slot was changed (under guarranty) and it work fine, no wake up if sd slot is empty.

Any update on this? My HD2 starting doing this today as well
And I have no usb cable at work to 'trick' it. The only option is to pull the battery which I don't want to do. This is ridiculous. Am I going to have to hard-reset the damn thing to fix it?
FYI I didn't do *ANYTHING* to my phone in a couple of weeks (no new apps, etc.) and it started doing this out of the blue.
You hit the red 'end call' button and it goes black..then comes right back on.
The odd thing is it *thinks* its plugged in because the only screen setting I can get it to acknoweldge is the 'backlight level when charging'. So somehow my phone thinks its plugged in even though my only usb cable is back home.
Grrr. No registry tweaks or temp files I can delete to reset this behavior?

Poltergeist in touch screen "driver"?

Hello, my sgs often disables the touch screen while typing or simply using the phone. For instance, while you are typing a sms a whole part of the soft keyboard gets unclickable, sometimes the whole screen is unclickable. This happens on every application, every rom I tried. To fix this (for a couple of seconds) I need to push the power btn to make it sleep and then wake up again, and the touch software magically wakes up as well.
Sometimes it works well for days. Sometimes a poltergeist clicks randomly wherever in the screen, and you got to battle to quickly exit every application is starting or configuration being changed by random clicks.
While at first sight this may look like a hardware fail, this can't be because just sleeping it and waking it up solves temporarily the problem. Furthermore, happens that works very nice and smooth for days and days.
Anyone else faced and perhaps solved this issue? Maybe another keyboard program? some kind of replacement? I tried one click lag fix (rooted) but looks to me it has nothing to do with that (in fact does not solve it)
Thanks for any support, this is really the best phone in the market now and it's a pity to have this kinda virus-like behaviour.

hmm not me. normally a re-flash will solve all problems.
like, you reformat your SD cards (both internal and external (if any)), flash (with re-partition ticked). after booting up, reformat SD cards again. go recovery menu and wipe data/factory reset and cache.
lol that should solve everything since you're at the default of defaults?
reccomend you not to restore apps/settings via anything. start everything afresh.
that's just me.

with original firmware (unbranded 2.1 from mediaworld - mediamarkt) I only got stuck lotsa times, with JP3 and now with JP2 I get less often stuck but got this random clicks... more often when the battery is low. For instance when the phone is totally dained and I plug and poweron, it's ghost haunted! Need an exorcist Happens randomly, then you leave it for an hour in your pocket and will behave flawlessly for dozen of hours. Don't have a clue.
P.S. formatting internal sd card won't erase everything, including OS? Or just os-settings?

formatting your sd cards will just delete whatever documents you've put onto your device. system stuff are intact.

ruspa said:
For instance when the phone is totally dained and I plug and poweron, it's ghost haunted! Need an exorcist
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May I conclude that the problem is worse when you use your phone while charging it? If so, maybe your phone is haunted by a cousin of the famous shaky screen (while on charger) ghost. See this thread.
Good luck with finding the GhostBusters for this one

I've noticed that the touch screen is less responsive when plugged into a charger. Maybe because of the electrical current running through the phone.
But your situation just seems like lag to me. Next time it happens, open up the task manager and check how much free ram you have. A solution to lag would be to use a lag fix and install AutoKiller. You'll need root for both though.

[Q] Serious Touchscreen Lag Issue [UPDATED]

First of all, sorry if this thread is out of place, but I'm not sure where else to turn.
My HD2 worked terrifically with FroyoStone 3.2, Hastarin 7.6 up until last Wednesday (5 days) ago. Then I started to experience, and have not been able to fix, serious TS lag issues.
Symptoms: I hit the unlock button, swipe to unlock, and the touchscreen will be responsive if I KEEP using it...if I pause for up to 3 seconds, the screen is no longer responsive. I have to relock the phone, unlock, and then swipe again to get it to work.
The touchscreen works perfectly fine in Windows Mobile 6.5. (Energy 2361X)
Attempts to fix: I've formatted the SD Card inbetween trying all of the following items-
1) Switch to MDJ ROM with MDJ kernel
2) Switch to Bluetopia ROM (0.5, 0.6 & 0.6.1) with Hastarin 8.0 OR 8.1
3) Switch back to FroyoStone 3.2 with kernel that comes with it
4) Update Radio ROM
5) Update to new Energy WinMo ROM -- after running Task 29 first.
Today, I purchased a new SD Card, loaded it with a clean install of Android, still have issues.
Also tried:
1) Turning off all LED notifications
2) Disabling Auto brightness in WinMo and Android
3) Disabled Screen Auto-Rotate
Honestly, I'm all out of ideas, and I hope someone in the community has a way to help out. I find it so odd that the touchscreen works great right after a "wake-up" as long as I keep it constantly stimulated...then fails to respond if I let it sit for more than three seconds. Is this a polling issue?
All ideas are appreciated. Thank you
UPDATE:
Followed another thread that suggests using the exact same WinMo ROM as the Builder -- matched my ROM with cmylxgo's WinMo ROM (author of Bluetopia) after another Task 29...no fix.

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UPDATE 2:
Also tried 32K clusters and 64K clusters when formatting the card. Problem exists with either size.

There are G-Scripts to disable the G-Sensor and then re-enable it without rebooting.
If you want to jump to the extreme and want to remove all the sensors entirely.
Code:
su
rm -rf /system/lib/hw/*.sensors.so

Terminal
Thanks for your quick reply.
Unfortunately, I'm not the best with working with Linux/Terminal commands -- I tried typing in your code, and it returned that there was no such file/folder as -rf, and then I removed that section, and it said that it could not find the system/...
So obviously, there's something I'm missing, or an error in the syntax, that I cannot debug.
Any help is appreciated.

Are you having any data freezes or are you on an area with poor to no signal? I get really bad system lag when I loose signal while my phone is trying to download. Ppp will freeze and the phone will be unresponsive till reboot. Only way I avoid this is to turn off data if I got into a building I know I will loose connection in.
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Thank you for your reply --
I checked into the disconnects being an issue by enabling Airplane Mode and seeing if I still had the same results, and unfortunately I do. I tried by disabling the Wifi and Mobile network separately, and still same issues.
But, here's an update on the issues:
Installed TYTUNG's NexusHD2-FRG83 V1.6, and this thing is very, very lightweight. Great battery life, great data (went to sleep, woke up, and not only was my phone still on...but I didn't have to reset data to check email...nice). The issues still remain. These are the newest things I've tried:
1) Remove Boxwave screen protector
2) Run from Airplane Mode.
I did however notice something really, really important: when the screen freezes, if I simulate a multi-touch gesture (pinch to zoom, etc), sometimes it wakes up! This is not a guaranteed thing (like 60%), but definitely something to work with.
Also, I noticed that one time that the touchscreen stopped responding, I tried the multitouch, no help...but I stayed on it. Multitouch tapped like crazy for a solid 6 seconds...then tried to shut the screen off -- and that button didn't respond. It was as if I saturated some bus of some sort that it had to clear out before it could finally shut the screen off.
Finally, I've noticed that the screen just needs to shut off for the touchscreen to unfreeze -- not go into a full lock situation. So, if the screen goes black, and I hit the lock key immediately, it'll unfreeze the TS.
Thanks to everyone who is trying to think of an idea!

i seem to be having the same issues as you right after i wake the phone up to unlock it. locking the phone is a habit for me to try and save as much battery as possible and also to not press any buttons while in my pocket.
im running a cyanogen rom and i changed the setting to allow me to unlock the phone by pressing the center windows key. i noticed that when the phone will not allow me to unlock it i can press the menu key and unlock it but i cannot use the touchscreen at all until i relock and unlock.
sometimes i have to do this a few times before the touchscreen comes back. i was thinking it could be my sd card but this started to happen today. i have been using android on my hd2 daily for the past 12 days without any problems. its weird that it started all of a sudden.

so it seems we still dont have a fix for the touchscreen freeze yet, right ?

Same problem here
Hi, I am experiencing the same problem.
Tried few versions of Android, The same problem repeated itself.
So I had to return to WM6.5 - there it works good. Only I have to reset the phone twice a day :-(
Hope someone will find brilliant solution for the sad problem that prevents using Android...

[Q] Screen problems when waking up

I have a problem with my screen:
when i press the power button to wake the screen, it lights up and then blacks down again, it doesn't matter how i press the button (how long i press and so on).
it happens sometimes, sometimes not, but happens more frequent than NOT happening so it's quite enervating.. usually i have to try to light up the screen 2 or 3 times before it works..
This problem i had before i flashed to a new rom too, but i didn't do a wipe when flashing so can this be a problem from software or does it seem to be hardware?

Exanimus said:
I have a problem with my screen:
when i press the power button to wake the screen, it lights up and then blacks down again, it doesn't matter how i press the button (how long i press and so on).
it happens sometimes, sometimes not, but happens more frequent than NOT happening so it's quite enervating.. usually i have to try to light up the screen 2 or 3 times before it works..
This problem i had before i flashed to a new rom too, but i didn't do a wipe when flashing so can this be a problem from software or does it seem to be hardware?
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Screen wake issues or the screen on/off animations are known issues. If your flashing a different rom its always recommended you do a full wipe. That in itself could solve your problem. Also posting the rom your using and the settings (if you have it over clocked) would be very helpfull when posting a problem your having. If you disable the screen animations it will work fine. If you like the animations and have your phone overclocked you may want to try adjusting that also. There are several post on screen wake issues that could possibly help you in this forum.
Sent from my CM7 powered G2

go for a wipe and fresh reinstall of the rom always works for me when i have problems

You can also try turning off automatic Brightness . it worked for me

I have tried all of your tips except for a clean install, nothing of it worked.
i try to avoid a clean install since i am really satisfied with my homescreen layout and all my apps i have now

Exanimus said:
I have tried all of your tips except for a clean install, nothing of it worked.
i try to avoid a clean install since i am really satisfied with my homescreen layout and all my apps i have now
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A wipe is recommened for a reason. It avoids threads like this being put up. You can't complain about something not working correctly if you haven't even followed the install instructions.
Sent from my CM7 powered G2

I use 5 minutes to set up my phone minutes after a clean installation. use titanium and bookmarkSB to backup your stuff.
Exanimus said:
I have tried all of your tips except for a clean install, nothing of it worked.
i try to avoid a clean install since i am really satisfied with my homescreen layout and all my apps i have now
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Nexus 4 screen freezes randomly, no reaction when touching.

Hi everyone!
So I just had this problem after I woke up yesterday. I googled a lot but only found similiar problems.
Let me tell you what happened chronologically:
After turning the phone on in the morning it started updating apps as if I was doing a firmware update: "updating apps 1 of 135" etc. Note that my nexus was already running on 5.1.1 and had the latest updates installed.
Now it randomly freezes the screen on whatever screen it was before it happens and it won't respond to any touch input. This can also happen when not using the phone, then it will freeze at the lockscreen (the time freezes with it so sometimes i can see at what time it froze). Also, it loses connection with Wi-Fi as i'm using Whatsapp Desktop when i'm on my laptop and it mentions me that my phone is not connected.
The only thing that "fixes" (temporarily) it is a reboot. Now sometimes, on the lockscreen, i can just hold the power button and the pop-up comes in to turn the phone of, which i can somehow just tap on an it responds by turning the phone off. But sometimes (less frequent than the latter mentioned) the pop-up doesn't come in and holding the power button for a few secs will do the trick.
I hope I informed you all enough and my end question is: does any of you know what this is? How i can fix it or what i can do to prevent it or anything as I am hopeless. (my G3 is up for reparation so this is my sisters old phone, i had a nexus 4 myself for 2 years before the G3).
Thanks in advance!!

The best way to test it is by reformat the OS.
I positively think that it will solve the problem.
Since the phone is no longer under warranty, I guess there is no harm to install custom rom on it. They are fast and stable too.
Hope this help. Good luck.
Sent from my Nexus 4

EXACT thing happened to me too. Backup your data and hard reset from recovery. This fixed it for me

Same problem here bro, but neither custom roms or factory reset helps.... Is there anyone who has successfully solved the problem ?

multimedias said:
Same problem here bro, but neither custom roms or factory reset helps.... Is there anyone who has successfully solved the problem ?
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Then it's time to change the screen or phone. Looks like it is a hardware issue.
Nitin

nitin.chobhe said:
Then it's time to change the screen ...
Nitin
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I agree, your screen needs to be replaced.