My phone keeps deciding to go into car mode of its own accord!
This is both on MIUI and LeeDrOiD.
The phone also automatically goes into speaker phone mode whenever I make or receive a call.
Is there any way to disable car mode, or is there a hardware problem with my phone?
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I'm having the same problem, if you go into setting, car dock, you can uncheck "auto launch car dock" or something similar. It will stop it from entering car mode, but it will still default the speaker to on.
Delivered mine back at the shop today, they hadn't seen it before, but guessed it was a HW problem.
Just changed to AlienMinds CM7 and the problem has disappeared. Hopefully if I go back to sense it will stay fixed!
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Mine does the samething doesnt matter what rom i use...sense, cm7 based they do the same thing. I know im in the wrong phone section since i have a g2(vision). But it was the only thread that had to do with my problem. Plz and thanks in advance.
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There is no setting to turn off automatic car dock launch
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Yeah it reared its ugly head after a reboot. I'm guessing it's a hardware problem
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I don't what happen but it went away for me but I thinks it hardware related also.
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I'm not too sure about why it keeps shifting to Car Mode, but as far as the activation of the speaker every time you get a call, all I can say is that, that's what it supposed to do anyway when in Car Mode.
If, for any reason, you had that problem even when your DHD was not in car mode, my guess would be that there's something up with either your gyroscope or with your proximity sensor.
I killed Car Mode and got away with it
Car Mode would pop up constantly on my HTC Incredible 2. It had nothing to do with the usb. Most times, the phone wasn't even plugged it and Car Mode would still pop up and Yes, I could click on it and disable it. For about 5 secs, then it was back. The worst part was that it would force-close the program that I was in to launch. It took me about 8 hours of research. Car Mode is a system app, and therefore can not be removed like other applications. You have to root your phone then delete, freeze or rename. Ok by me, but rooting apparently isn't stable yet for the Incredible 2 if you have a later os version than 2.2. Guess what? I have 2.3. No problem, how do i revert. Oh, i find out, you can't without resetting the phone to factory, which by the way is what verizon support suggested. I thought not before I back up, but lo and behold you can't back up more than contacts and pics without rooting. Arrrrgh! Next, I looked for an app to help me battle this devil Car Mode, so I tried apps from Amazon and market:
Advanced task killer Free
Astro
Gemini App Manager
Dock Nothingness
Dock no-op
Disable car home
and NONE of them worked, at least not for the Incredible 2.
I had a new idea, if you can't beat them, join them so I installed the latest version of Car Dock Home, hoping that at least it would give the option to not launch. Nope, didn't work. Luckily, I'm good at my job just because I don't give me 'easily'. Anyway, finally on my 14th try, I used 'DockNothing Free' from Amazon. At first, I didn't think this worked either. There was no input screen or settings but that's because the app doesn't initiate until the Car Mode launches, then it allows you to choose to select DockNothing as the default program. I had to do that 3 times: 1) Car Panel 2)Car Dock 3)Home Dock. Now I actually see a little popup that says 3 tasks killed. YEA!
Sorry for the long post, but I'll bet if you're here, you are going crazy because of Car Mode. And I read a lot more than just this much to get mine fixed.
ps. Car Mode actually looks pretty neat and seems useful IN THE CAR. But I have been too afraid to release the monster to check it out. I might at the next update. Might....
Well, got mine back.. they had only done a factory reset and an update, and now the problem is gone. So I guess atleast for my case it was software related..
The funny thing is, I did a factory reset, and had the latest update before I delivered mine for service.
have the same issue with my dhd.
in many geman forums you find the hint that is has something to do with a broken micro-usb and the dhd can't reognize if its plugged in to a dock, or not.
If i plug in a sumple usb-charging-cable neither the car dock starts nor the loudspeaker would turn up.
i took a good look on my micro usb slot and couln't find anything strange.
Anyway, i cleaned it up very well and removed any little fuzz i found.
But i still have this issue.
has anyone an idea how the dhd recognizes if its plugged to an dock or an charging cable???
thats seems to be the key to the Problem
Possible soultion
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maybe a possible solution, but as you mentioned i'm afraid to make it even worst.
so, as long as i have guarantee on it i think i bring it to a dealer to send it back to HTC, maybe i'll get a brand new phone, though it ****s me up to have it wiped after that.
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maybe a possible solution, but as you mentioned i'm afraid to make it even worst.
so, as long as i have guarantee on it i think i bring it to a dealer to send it back to HTC, maybe i'll get a brand new phone, though it ****s me up to have it wiped after that.
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My phone has been doing this for 2 or 3 days now. When I accept an incoming call, the phone automatically enters speakerphone mode.
When a BT headset is connected, it is fine.
Anyone got a clue why it is doing this? I havenet installed any apps which should have this effect.
RTR
Been looking into this all night, with no luck. Has anyone seen this before?
Not had any calls come in on mine yet so can't comment on whether I am affected. I would have thought it would be well known about though if it was widespread.
Are you using stock rom? Tried re-flashing the RUU?
Had this to you need to make someone call you and keep trying with the button to switch between speaker or ear and eventually i got it right! Hold it against your ear then remove it and try button again thats how i did it!
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Same here with that issue ever since those new updates started
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Mine too but it hardly ever does it now. A sensor tries to detect how your phone is positioned and switches to speaker. It seems to go away on the stock rom, so persevere on the stock rom. It all worked out for me eventually. Word of advice though, DISABLE SENSE until it's ready. It makes your contact icons in messages disappear. Htc always releases questionable software which should be described as beta. If you use bluetooth for music, stick with stock for now. Yadda yadda. All in all, the dhd. Rules. Oh ya, anyone know how the htc hd2 rund witb android 2.2. I saw lots of great deals on ebay to buy a broken one and fix tbe software to run android. I just want a new toy really.
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I had this for a while - turned out to be an iffy setting in my profile manager/switcher (phoneweaver). Are you using anything like that?
FIXED: Oh my word, how simple was this...
Should have said, I'm on stock everything as I have a poor track record with having to send stuff back to manufacturers to be fixed.
After spending all night looking for a solution, and trying a couple of things found on other forums (install phonespeaker app and turn it off in that - doesn't work BTW), I decided this morning to remove the possibility that the phone had simply got its panties in a bunch, switched it off properly and removed the battery. 10 minutes of being denied a power source has cured it. Most bizarre.
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
RTR
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Looking for some advice/help. I got my wife the Evo Shift a couple of weeks ago. Her phone has not been rooted and other than a few added apps the phone is completely stock. The phone reboots on her 4 and 5 times a day. She does not have any kind of task killer installed so that's not it. She plays Angry Birds a lot and uses Pandora quite a bit. I have also installed Sound Manager for her. Other than that I can't think of anything that would be helpful for trouble shooting. I have searched here and through Google and have not seen any info of others having this problem. I am not sure if I should root the thing or return it to best buy. I have the Evo and previously the Hero and am no stranger to rooting or custom ROMs. Just really did not see the need to root it since my wife has no idea about any of that. Any help or advice will be appreciated.
Thanks.
root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.
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root and install nfinitefx's or mik's rom; you'll have less trouble than if it was stock.
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That's what I was thinking. I am a little worried its a hardware problem though. I guess I could always flash back to stock and return it if that doesn't fix it.
hell return it ya got nothing to lose but a headache
Did you try a factory reset?
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Did you try a factory reset?
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Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.
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Not yet. I did get some more info from my wife though. It only happens when she is at work. And she says she get some sort of "radio error". I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the building she is in. She had my hero for a couple months before I got her the shift and had no problems. It had CM 6.1 running though.
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im running mine stock and rooted and dont have any problems with reboots. sounds like a app is probably screwing something up
i had a similar problem with one of the streaming media apps i used to use a month or so ago i cant remember the name but for some reason if i lost signal it would crash the phone and need to be rebooted
i took it off and installed tuneinradio and it worked better anyways
My shift was rebooting itself 3 to 4 times a day, I just rooted it and it seemed to stop rebooting itself for a day. Now its starting to reboot itself again, but not as often.
I am almost convinced its a hardware problem. Sounds too rare to be anything else. Maybe bad memory or something.
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I had a freezing issue with my phone which people suggested possible due to pandora and bluetooth. Perhaps you have the same issue?
Anyway, try to find "bluetooth for automotive" settings for pandora and turn it off.
I wouldn't recommend rooting your phone if you think its broken. You might just end up breaking it further and render your warranty void.
If you can't fix it, get sprint to replace it.
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This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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This may be resolved by now, but I got my shift previously used. When I first activated it, I was getting some radio errors and I could not make calls or send sms messages, but the email worked fine. I contacted Sprint customer service via chat from the website and they did something from their end to fix it. I had to turn off my phone and she said now wait till I tell you to turn it back on. I waited 5 minutes and when I turned it back on, everything was fine. So I would take it in or contact Sprint and see what they say. As for not sure if you wanna root it for her, I would definitely recommened it, she doesn't have to take advantage of all the advanced tweak that some use but it will just make the phone a lot smoother and easier to use. IMHO.
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Thanks for the input. I think I'm going to go ahead and root it. After keeping an eye on the situation its seems its only happening when she is at work. I can't imagine it will fix it but I think its worth a shot.
I think I fixed mine. I tried to use navigation and it kept force closing, that was strange because I've used it before with no problems. I googled around and found some info that if you had another text to speak engine in your phone then uninstalled it without setting it back to pico as default it would cause nav to FC, which is what I had done. So I set it back and checked "Always use my settings" in the Voice section of settings, nav started working and the reboot issue went away for the past 7 days.
I don't really know crap about phones and most tech stuff for that matter (heck 99% of what is said in these forums goes over my head) but I think why this fixed it is either nav or some app was trying to use pico or something and when it couldn't the phone would get an error and reboot itself. I may be wrong (probably am) but maybe she deleted something or changed a setting some app needs and that is causing her problem. Hope this helps in someway or at least gives you another direction to start checking.
Hi all,
Had a DHD since it's release date, swapped it for another one because my first one had the horrible gap at the top which allows dust to come onto the screen, second one was cool, however since i've had it i've never had a good track record with the GPS, it's just a **** feature which over promises and under delivers, even when the phone was stock it was crap.
I've flashed numerous radios onto it and i've tried all the programs which promise the earth and don't deliver, I don't want to use a network connection either otherwise what would be the point ?
I went to the south of spain last week and it worked for a little bit and then ceased to, it's a complete ball ache because now i can't even get one satellite.
I'm presently on Core Droid 6.8 using Radio 12.54.60.25P_26.09.04.11_M2
With it's matching RIL package, just doesn't want to work, seriously pissed off with this and i want to just kick it in the bin now.
Any help would be good, i've rooted with all security features off.
I even tried the fix posted about the metal contacts by the flash with no success (i didn't break them either).
Cheers.
I got that problem too.
With my Desire HD it helps to do a fastreboot with the app "Fast Reboot" from the Android Market. Just run it. After that, I go into FasterFix, another app. There you can set a optimised server, mine is "Germany". Then click on go.
And finally after this I go into the app "GPS Status". Activate you Gps, click on the Menubutton -> tools -> A-GPS. First click on reset, then Menubutton -> tools -> A-GPS -> download. You'll need a wifi connection for this-
After those steps my gps locks in a few seconds. I also don't know if you have to do this after each flash, maybe you'll just need one app or something.
I hoped I could help you!
Hi, I appreciate the response but I'm afraid I've done all that before and it doesn't work, I've now contacted my phone provider and im getting a new phone tomorrow, just need to get back to stock now.
I hope you know how to unroot and restore your phone? Check this
I agree with the above Faster Fix app resolved the GPS issue for me.
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Hi all,
I've used the phone for about six weeks and now it starts to act strangely. Since yesterday it keeps entering car mode sporadically and stars the voice recognition app. A minute ago, it even displayed that it was being charged, even though the charger was not plugged in.
I guess this behaviour us due to dirt in the micro USB jack that has accumulated while carrying the device in my pocket. Possibly, dust particles bridge some of the USB pins and trigger the described functions.
I will try to clean the USB jack and report back. Blowing air over the contacts from my mouth was not sufficient, though.
Has anyone of you experienced such symptoms on your device?
If I can't fix this issue myself, I think I'll have the phone exchanged. Hope, that dust will also reset the custom binary counter, then...
For the record: I'm on Villain Rom 1.4 with CF-Root kernel XKF1.
Greetings
Yeh car mode came on with me after installing villain 1.4
I had other issues also like gmail force closing etc... 1.3 was fine but 1.4 made my phone go a bit cuckoo.
I'm on cognition now but I'll be back on villain at 1.5
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So a software problem it is... Couldn't google anything about it. Well, I flashed a stock backup KE2+KF2 CF-Kernel and so far my device behaves as it should. No car mode. I really hope it was a software bug. But it looked so much like a hardware fault...
Not sure if its the same case, but sometimes when I answer calls my phoes goes into loud speaker mode on its own... its annoying.
I had the same problem, but it it resolved itself after a few days. Maybe it is some dirt behind the home button.
It's there again! This time on Darky Rom 2 R1.
Same here. Stock SGS2 KG2 rom. Anyone found a fix for this ?
Had my phone since launch and it started to do this a couple of days ago and also draining the battery within 4 or 5 hours because the cpu was in constant use. Also i couldnt turn the phone off, it would just reboot and wouldnt charge. I had the same theory about the usb jack but didnt seem to make any difference. I did a hard reset but the problem was still there, strangely the phone appears to have sorted itself out not and is running fine!
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There is other thread
Read here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132588&page=2
Coming over from the Shift forums for a question.
I've tried getting answers over in the Shift forums but no one can seem to help. (also i've done heavy googling)
OK my issue is the lights on the home, menu, back and search buttons are not working. They went out a couple of weeks ago and when I went to sprint they told me it was due to water damage (which is bs). The weird thing is, if I toggle the brightness on my phone then the lights come back on and stay on until I sleep/lock my phone. Also if I open the camera the lights come on. I know the evo and the Shift are similar devices so thought maybe someone over here might have some thoughts on the issue. I appreciate any help.. Don't ream me for being a Shifter
Thanks in advance
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Have tried a new rom?
You could always try going to a sprint store to have it repaired/replaced.
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Have tried a new rom?
You could always try going to a sprint store to have it repaired/replaced.
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Yeah, I've tried switching several different ROMs, I've ran a RUU back to stock and Still no dice. When I talked to Sprint they told me it was water damage (it's never been in water) and I need a replacement. The only problem with that is all Shift are being shipped with Gingerbread and I'm not willing to lose root.
That really stinks, you might have to live with it for a while.
It sounds like a hardware issue. Have you tried contacting htc?
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The only reason I was thinking it's not a hardware issue is because I can manually turn on the light when I toggle the screen brightness.
I may try and talk to HTC and see what they say. It's not a huge deal, I was just hoping someone had seen a similar problem.
I had the same issue earlier today and read that re-calibrating the screen fixes it. It seemed like a random fix but it actually worked for me. Try Settings > Display > G-Sensor calibration
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I had the same issue earlier today and read that re-calibrating the screen fixes it. It seemed like a random fix but it actually worked for me. Try Settings > Display > G-Sensor calibration
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Thanks for the suggestion but still no luck. I may be stuck with no lights until a new root method is found
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