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Anyone Got 2.3 Bugs?

So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
Second, and the most annoying thing I noticed, is the back lit buttons stop lighting up after a certain period of time. The soft buttons under the screen and the slide out keyboard still work, they just don't light up. Rebooting fixes the problem.
Third is the built in battery manager seems to have some issues as well. Although it seems to inherently do a better job of saving battery life than in previous versions of Android. On my phone it sometimes won't come out of it's no-syncing state and allow data usage. Other times it will allow data usage after waking back up, but data seems extremely slow. Again a reboot fixes the issue.
And the last thing I noticed today. Although I haven't had any noticeable signal issues or dropped calls, I was getting drastically different signal readings sitting right beside a guy with a DROIDX at work. As in he was showing full 3G service and I was only showing one bar of 1X and like a -100 RSSI. I realize it's two different phones, but my understanding was that the X and the original 2 were pretty similar.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed any of these things or if I'm the only one with some bugs? Or if anyone has any ideas about a solution for any of the issues?
FYI I'm far from an expert, but I'm not a complete Noob either. Although I don't have a ton of posts I've been hacking my cell phone since the days of my Razr and have had and rooted three Android phones to this point.
Anyway, thanks a bunch guys!
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.

kiwilit43 said:
So after running rooted Gingerbread for a while now I've noticed a few bugs and was wondering if I was the only one.
First thing is Swype. Yeah yeah, I know everyone has that one. But after uninstalling the old apk with Root Explorer and then installing the beta everything initially worked fine. But my first reboot after the install of the beta Swype force closes every time it trys to open. Uninstall and reinstall doesn't fix the problem. Weird, but not a huge deal to me as I didn't use it that much anyway.
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You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X

kwheel596 said:
Only problem that I have is that using Launcherpro when the home screen is rotated 90 degrees (widescreen-ish) and then rotated back the wallpaper gets a "letterbox" effect similar to what you see on TV's. Haven't looked into it too much, probably just an issue with Launcherpro.
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I noticed the same thing. And actually LauncherPro in general wasn't working too great for me after the GB install. I actually kind of like the stock launcher in GB so I ended up deleting LauncherPro anyway.

phoffer said:
You said uninstalling the old apk, but did you remove the other 2 related files as well? When I first got my phone, I only removed the apk and had issues until I found this link:
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?1641-Tutorial-Installing-Beta-Swype-on-Droid-X
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Yeah sorry I should have gone into more detail. Yes I did delete all entries I saw that referenced Swype, including the ones listed on the link.
To be even more specific when I try to do anything with Swype it says "The applitcation Swype (process com.swype.android.inputmethod) has stopped unexpectedly."

I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.

silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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mines the same and its weird cause it only does it to games
also i have the problem of the backlights only working when they want to.

Maybe Google's way of telling us to get off the games and get to work?

silverfang77 said:
I'm having a weird bug where three shortcuts to games I put on my start screens keep disappearing: Bejeweled, Optime's Hangman and Tic Tac Toe. I put them back and they stay for a while, but eventually, just disappear. I even rebooted after putting them back and this did nothing. It's quite strange.
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Glad I'm not the only one with back light issues.
And I actually just noticed the games disappearing this morning. Weird.
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

The backlight issue bugs me to no end. I try to figure out how to restore it without rebooting but no success so far.
One other issue is that I can't access the multitouch keyboard. I disabled it because I really never used it, but then I felt like using it one day and there is no place to check to use it. I have SwiftKey installed as my only 3rd party keyboard

I'm having an issue with ridiculously low volume on phone calls......any fixes out there because it's hard to use your phone, as a, you know, phone, when you can't hear the other person on the line. I may have to SBF back and wait for the official 2.3 if it doesnt improve.

Rebooting takes care of the call volume problem.
Rooted Droid 2 running Froyo 2.2 with the 2.3.20 update

Yeah I had the low call volume too, I think everyone did. It went away after the first reboot.
As fas as the games disappearing. Someone mentioned Bejeweled, that's one of the ones on mine that keeps disappearing. There are a few that do it, I don't remember exactly which ones, but Bejeweled and Stupid Zombies are two that I remember always disappear.
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I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.

silverfang77 said:
I mentioned Bejeweled. So far (*knocks on wood*), it hasn't disappeared since I moved it to the screen two to the left of the home screen.
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What screen was it on before? They were disappearing from screen two to the right of my home screen.
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my games are on the 2nd page to the left and for me its stupid zombies, angry birds, angry birds seasons, and angry birds rio that keep disappearing, the other 4 game shortcuts i have don't disappear. I also tried reversing where they sit and the same 4 shortcuts disappeared, even sitting in different locations.

Hmmm, who knows. Even though all of mine weren't disappearing, just certain ones, it got annoying to me. I just deleted the shortcuts from my screen and pull up the games from the launcher now.
It is strange that its only certain games, and that we all seem to have the same ones disappearing.
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I believe that's where it was on mine as well.

Hopefully I wont jinx myself by posting this, but I think I found a solution to the back light issue. Applied it this morning and haven't had any issues yet. If anyone is still reading this thread, I will post up results and the fix tomorrow if it continues working.
Sent from my DROID2 using XDA App

We are indeed reading the thread and eagerly anticipate your backlight solution.
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[Q] browser keeps opening a new tab

anyone have a problem when clicking links it'll open a new tab instead of switching the current window to the new page? I don't know what the deal is.
Running 3.1 with 0209 dock version.
Sites that consistently do it on:
Facebook, dailytech, fudzilla, sometimes amazon and newegg.
edit: Well actually, it's intermittent. Dailytech works properly now. This problem happens quite frequently though.

I haven't completely narrowed it down, but it seems to happen faster when you use quick commands like ctrl t and ctrl w to open and close tabs. It also happened without the keyboard once.

I have the same problem, Pretty annoying . Not sure how to fix it . Anyone ?

In web browser -
Menu -> Settings -> Advanced - Check "Open in background"
Sometimes this appears to get forgotten, unchecking and re-checking seems to resolve.

Highland3r said:
In web browser -
Menu -> Settings -> Advanced - Check "Open in background"
Sometimes this appears to get forgotten, unchecking and re-checking seems to resolve.
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that really doesn't do anything. hope Asus is aware.

I'm seeing this as well. It's pretty annoying, and I just got the dock this week. Closing out all the tabs so that the browser quits and then restarting the browser seems to clear it up temporarily.
I agree that this seems to happen faster when you use the keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone think this might have happened due to the last dock firmware update? I didn't immediately upgrade to the latest firmware version and I don't recall this happening when I first started playing with the dock.

try toggling the mode from tablet to desktop.

mb2k said:
try toggling the mode from tablet to desktop.
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Thanks! It doesn't permanently keep it from happening (the problem still comes back randomly), but it's an easier temporary fix than closing all the tabs. Makes me wonder why it works, though...

same problem here I flashed so many rom trying to get this resolved, but it's just a matter of time before the problem come back. I believe this only happen with 3.1 though. I've never have any problem with 3.0 (the problem is there even in official 3.1).
Anyone know how to report to asus ? I'm going back to 3.0 for the moment

I've been having the exact same problem, glad it's not just me. It's quite frustrating that there are at least 3 major issues with the browser (this, the keyboard lag and the terrible JavaScript performce) but getting support for these issues from Asus or Google seems to be next to impossible. Definitely feels like I bought a beta product at this point.
Anyway, I found that I can temporarily fix it by force closing the browser in the applications menu in device settings. Not really ideal though.
Greg

Android 3.2 - No default picker screens!

Hi Guys,
Just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction.
I flashed to 3.01 US stock from UK in order to get the updates. I updated twice to 3.2.
What I'm noticing now is that if I click on a link, that launches an associated app (browser for instance), I used to get a screen jump up and ask which app I wanted to use. So if I'd installed Firefox, Dolphin and got Stock, it would give me the option if I hadn't yet set a default.
Since 3.2 when I click the link, the screen fades out, but the options aren't showing to select which means I can't launch the link/app.
The fix is to uninstall any relevant applications until I only have one app that can launch said link, then reinstall, and I get the option again.
Anyone had this or know how to fix without reinstalling everything?
Hope that made sense....very tired so it might not have done

I had the problem I hope u didn't set Firefox or dolphin as ur default browser what I did was erase all data now I have dolphin and the default drowser all working fine here
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This issue has been discussed, but there are two simple ways to solve it without having to reinstall everything.
1) Simply wait and eventually it will fix itself. I know this sounds strange but it will eventually work. I am not generally patient so this one did not work for me.
2) With Autorotate ON, simply rotate the Xoom so that it has to redraw the "picker" screen. Do this when the screen dims and nothing is showing up. I have found that once you do this once for any particular file type you do not need to do it a second time.
I too was reinstalling apps to get the screen to show up, but even that did not always work.

I had the same problem and it seemed to only manifest itself after I re-installed all my apps from Tiamat/Xoom Zone with Titanium Backup. I'm not sure which app was the culprit but after uninstalling Scripter and aLogcat it started working perfect.
Hope this helps!

Same Issues !!
With opera Mobile and MoboPlayer !

HuckFinn said:
This issue has been discussed, but there are two simple ways to solve it without having to reinstall everything.
1) Simply wait and eventually it will fix itself. I know this sounds strange but it will eventually work. I am not generally patient so this one did not work for me.
2) With Autorotate ON, simply rotate the Xoom so that it has to redraw the "picker" screen. Do this when the screen dims and nothing is showing up. I have found that once you do this once for any particular file type you do not need to do it a second time.
I too was reinstalling apps to get the screen to show up, but even that did not always work.
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Will certainly check these options out. Are you saying that in the first instance, when the screen dims.,...if I left it long enough, it would appear?
Has this been put to Google on their Bugs page,....as Bugs go...it's an annoying one

The Asus Transformer has the exact same problem. makes me think it could be more of a HC3.2 bug now after seeing this thread than device related.
Worse after you think you have fixed the problem every time you turn the device off and then on again on the problem begins again if you have multiple apps that can load a file or link like a web browser (I use multiple). If you have one app or set one app to be the default then you don't have the problem ....with that file or link
Easy to reset by rotating the screen ..but each time you turn on?
Question........
has anyone fixed this with a factory reset?

Factory reset will not fix this . Other browsers , media players and file managers somehow cause the problems .

Official ICS Firmwares - Bugs List

Hi
Use this thread to list bugs you have found in Stock Note ICS 'LPY' firmware, and work-arounds you have discovered for them.
Feel free to include bugs in Apps that don't work quite as intended in ICS but did work fine in GB.
Nigel

1) Facebook (uses ICS Sync Mechanism). Sync's ALL facebook friends and not just those already in contacts even when option to 'Sync with existing contacts' is selected. Result is a load of contacts with photo/name only where folks have not included contacts info in their FB profile. Solution is not to sync contacts with FB!! Not syncing means you don't get the contacts pics (the main reason why I want to sync). There are some 3rd party FB pic sync apps, but I have not tried any of these with ICS as yet.
2) Font size used for name of apps under icons for apps is bigger than in GB. This results in app names wrapping mid word where the same app name fitted on a single line in GB. This can result in the final 1 or more letters in the name of an app appearing on a second line under the icon. It looks ugly.
3) The 'Select Input Method' prompt appears as a notification under 'ongoing tasks' randomly.

Email widgets can fail to update, lose their assigned accounts and lose the option to switch accounts. The only fix for the first problem is to scroll rapidly down the email list to force an update, the assigned account can usually be reset on the widget, but occasionally the widgets get locked and have to be deleted and regenerated.
Also, not sure if this qualifies as a bug or change in behaviour, but the way audio output is dealt with when bluetooth audio devices disconnect has changed. Whereas in GB, switching off eg. a bluetooth headset would stop any streaming audio, with ICS the audio continues, but is switched to the Note speaker.

ICS is rather a large jump isn't it? We only have one build. You should make this specific to LPY if you want, but having it just be for ICS bugs isn't very specific or logical. It's like saying: Bugs for GB! That's A LOT of builds. If you want this thread to be useful, make it more specific.

Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?

S Planner
I have found a bug in my ICS LPY S planner package. I use it with exchange and the status is not properly synced with Exchange:
Note-----------------------Exchange
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Free-----------------------Tentative
Tentative------------------Busy
Busy-----------------------Out of Office
Not nice...

When the phone is connected to car dock and kept in horizontal position, if you recieve a call, the phone app force closes and you cant answer it.
Solution: Keep the phone in vertical position in the dock!!

blitzkriegh said:
Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?
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Hi
I got this while playing with the face unlock stuff after the initial update. I did a hard reset to get shot of any left over junk, and have not re-enabled the face unlock, and have not seen the pixel-fest since. I suspect it was not using face unlock rather than the hard reset that sorted.
Nigel

Bugs I have found so far :
Phone does not connect to computer via KIES.
Many bugs using original car dock - phone app closes when dialing, calls dropped when using Bluetooth - I did not try vertical mode yet
Phone randomly stops entering deep sleep mode , BetterBatteryStats lists a kernel wakelock called : l2_hsic . This does not impact battery time by much, but still annoying
Phone randomly reboots while screen is off - but I had this in gingerbread too
In call log , when I clicked a number it used to show me all the times that number called, now it does not.
Sometimes the phone forgets the personal ring tone assigned to a contact and uses default ring tone
... that's all I can think of right now, the good side is the ROM is MUCH FASTER in touchwiz and other apps..

rigor.m said:
Phone randomly stops entering deep sleep mode , BetterBatteryStats lists a kernel wakelock called : l2_hsic . This does not impact battery time by much, but still annoying
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L2_HSIC does affect battery had 6hours kernel wakelocks from it.
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To those with sleep issues, have you tried full wipe then reinstall Apps? I had issues with not sleeping and battery life, but since hard resetting, thee phone sleeps fine. Its not as painful to do this with ics since it will auto reinstall apps. (Configure backup and restore in settings before reset). Its supposed to backup app configs as well, but I found this did not work (many apps have their own mechanism to backup their config)

Currently irritated to death by the random reboots while in sleep. Sometimes 18 hours apart... Sometimes 18 minutes apart.

blitzkriegh said:
Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?
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On LPY stock but rooted.
By "Pixel salad" you mean multi coloured horizontal lines filling the screen up?
I got this when I woke my phone up and was about to unlock it (pattern lock) when I received a call...
I decided to swipe answer to see if it still functioned and it did...

veletron said:
3) Keyboard config icon appears randomly in notifications for no apparent reason.
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It appears when the keyboard is displayed so that you can change keyboard if you wish, as opposed to using long press in GB.
Regards,
Dave
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senectus said:
On LPY stock but rooted.
By "Pixel salad"
Phone randomly reboots while screen is off - but I had this in gingerbread too
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having frequently used apps moved to SD card may cause random reboot. nothing to do with 'screen off' but worth checking.

I have no complaint about ICS except that the battery life is abysmal and the audio hiccup all the time.
I am currently on LPY. Wondering if you guys have the same issues. The audio hiccup is the most annoying. Don't know how to describe it. It's like music skipping while playing. It happened even on zPlayer and Poweramp so it's not stock music player dependent. At first I thought that my sd card is failing but when I tried to play it on my PC, all the music files played normal without any hiccups.

In my case I cannot use skype and I keep getting this error message "you cannot be signed in at this time. Please try again later". So far I have tried clearing app data, force closing, reinstalling and installing modded and older versions of skype and no luck still. Skype is running just fine on my laptop.
I am on rooted LPY.
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I use "voice talk" when driving and often launch it by double clicking the home button. However I notice that every 2nd or 3rd time i launch it, the microphone doesn't respond (the blue concentric circles indicating sound don't move). Clicking done makes it ask to try again and the microphone works normally.

zkyevolved said:
ICS is rather a large jump isn't it? We only have one build. You should make this specific to LPY if you want, but having it just be for ICS bugs isn't very specific or logical. It's like saying: Bugs for GB! That's A LOT of builds. If you want this thread to be useful, make it more specific.
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He did make it specific....he said "stock Note ICS 'LPY' firmware". Did you not read his original post? Before you try to sound clever, read before you post!
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Use the widget and adjust brightness to very low. Now Open stock browser and set there the brightness to automatic. Go to a app like Facebook, tapatalk and open a Page where you get directed to the browser to open it. Press home button now. Go to the widget and press synchronization button on or off doesn't matter now you will see the brightness button that was black to jump from alone to auto. I guess that's the automatization process of Samsung.
LPY stock rom
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[Q] Ankidroid crashes after update

Hello,
I've had my NST rooted with TouchNooter and used it mainly for Ankidroid app. Some time ago 1.2.1 update sneaked through, rendering rooting inactive. Afterwards I've rooted it again with NookManager, but now Ankidroid crashes. I've been wondering whether some other users here are using Ankidroid on NST and whether they had any problem after the latest update of software (particularly those using NookManager).
Cheers

Hello gliomarto,
Please install the SendLog app, and execute it just after the crash.
Then post the resulting log here.
Thanks for your feedback!
Nicolas Raoul

Nicolas Raoul said:
Hello gliomarto,
Please install the SendLog app, and execute it just after the crash.
Then post the resulting log here.
Thanks for your feedback!
Nicolas Raoul
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Hello Nicolas, thanks for this incredible app, i just rooted my Nook Simple Touch and was eager to try AnkiDroid on e-ink but unfortunately something goes terribly wrong which led me to this thread.
I also happen to have my device running 1.2.1 rooted with NookManager and here is my issue:
Ankidroid downloads my deck and all goes well up to a point where i tap "Start reviewing" button. The screen blinks and nothing else ever happens;
upon returning back the app displays an input to send an error and feedback, no matter which deck I choose.
I attach is my log from SendLog, the issue starts at 19:37:29

Hello Nicolas,
I'll join in to thanks for that extremely useful app.
I've attached the log, hope it helps.
I have the exact same issue as Imarooned (I hope he will forgive me relief I feel hearing that I'm not the only one having that problem). It is worth noting that the crash caused by this situation — after attempting to review any deck it blinks and sends me back to default deck (I guess it would send to the first in the list, were there another), and after attempting to go back crashes. It is also may be worth noting that crash sends report(s) about issue 1253 that was presumably fixed some time ago.
Cheers

gliomarto said:
Hello Nicolas,
I'll join in to thanks for that extremely useful app.
I've attached the log, hope it helps.
I have the exact same issue as Imarooned (I hope he will forgive me relief I feel hearing that I'm not the only one having that problem). It is worth noting that the crash caused by this situation — after attempting to review any deck it blinks and sends me back to default deck (I guess it would send to the first in the list, were there another), and after attempting to go back crashes. It is also may be worth noting that crash sends report(s) about issue 1253 that was presumably fixed some time ago.
Cheers
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And me third, exactly the same problem.
Anyone know what version of AnkiDroid should work on the Nook Touch? Also does the Nook need to be upgraded to 1.2.1 or will 1.2.0 work?

shard said:
And me third, exactly the same problem.
Anyone know what version of AnkiDroid should work on the Nook Touch? Also does the Nook need to be upgraded to 1.2.1 or will 1.2.0 work?
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I use AnkiDroid v2.0.1 and it works fine on FW 1.2.1 (it should also work on 1.2.0).

I've tried upgrading to 1.2.1 to get it to work
I've done a factory reset, put the 1.2.1 zip file on, it's ignored. It seems something in the rooting process stops the upgrade working.
I then tried the 8 failed reboots approach, same problem.
Anyway of forcing the upgrade in? The main thing i want the ereader for is Ankidroid

gliomarto sorted me out with a version that worked
Just need for that fix to be included in the official releases now

shard said:
gliomarto sorted me out with a version that worked
Just need for that fix to be included in the official releases now
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Is there a way for me to get that version? I just rooted my Nook just for this (LCDs are giving me more eyestrain headaches) and am having the same problem.

Imarooned said:
Ankidroid downloads my deck and all goes well up to a point where i tap "Start reviewing" button. The screen blinks and nothing else ever happens;
upon returning back the app displays an input to send an error and feedback, no matter which deck I choose.
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The same problem was solved by checking the box: Preferences->Reviewing->Fade Scrollbars (Automatically fade out flashcard scrollbars when not scrolling).
P.S. AnkiDroid-2.0.2