Go ahead, check your compass apps. They STILL didn't fix the compass inversion problem with EI22. That's hilarious. And also why GPS is still shoddy.
just having the official GB is good enough for me
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Still have gps lock ups just like past leaks :-(
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This is why I'm still convinced that there was a flub on the production line that resulted in many of our phones having the compass installed upside-down - the software assumes a certain value is north/east/etc. instead of using calibration (or gravity) to determine the correct layout
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All you'd need to do is reverse it in the code, right?
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All you'd need to do is reverse it in the code, right?
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This would either require two versions (or more, depending on how many different orientations exist), or additional code to calibrate appropriately. I would vote for the second method...
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My compass works. I'm still on EC05, however.
Really the compass who gives a flying f**k
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Really the compass who gives a flying f**k
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Kinda need if you use something like Dishpointer Pro. But anyways, I just tested the compass and Dishpointer Pro is spot on with EI22.
There is a GPS program that will calibrate the compass. This fixed the issue for me.
I don't typically use the compass, but I was trying to get my GPS to work on the ACS ICS rom.
I calibrated the compass using GPS Tools and all is good.
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This is why I'm still convinced that there was a flub on the production line that resulted in many of our phones having the compass installed upside-down - the software assumes a certain value is north/east/etc. instead of using calibration (or gravity) to determine the correct layout
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My compass is correct on GPS Status app.
Some of you are reporting correct compass readings from stock? Interesting. So if that's true, then it is either a hardware or irreversible firmware issue that Samsung can't fix.
I always hypothesized that since the board on the Epic was a split PCB due to the sliding keyboard and CDMA radio, the magnometer was physically oriented inversely to all other Galaxy S devices thus simply a software issue they wouldn't fix. But if they realized this and made a hardware revision to correct this (as it now seems), then I can see why they refuse to fix it. They would fix the reversed compasses and break those who weren't.
Also, I know you can fix the problem with GPS status and doing horizontal calibration with the phone face-down.
And just a last note, the mgnetomer settings and binary driver in GB have been replaced with an automatically calibrating 'geomagneticd' daemon.
To those who don't understand why I mentioned that this is probably the reason GPS is shoddy; the supplementary data (XTRA) to assist in GPS locks provides the GPS daemon with up-to-date geomagnetic data, atmospheric ephermis data, and accurate positions of NAVSTAR satellites in orbit. Now think about it. If the device thought it were facing up and oriented due-north, but in reality it was face-down and south, it would have a lot more difficulty making an initial lock as well as maintaining one if it were ever moved. Follow?
Feel free to tear my science to pieces if you have a better explanation than I do.
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Sounds good but a gps doesn't need to know which way it is facing. It just picks up a signal no matter which way it is facing.
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Sounds good but a gps doesn't need to know which way it is facing. It just picks up a signal no matter which way it is facing.
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To get a faster fix, it uses XTRA to get precise locations of other satellites.
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But if they realized this and made a hardware revision to correct this (as it now seems), then I can see why they refuse to fix it.
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If so, that's still pretty crummy. Such a hardware revision should've been made identifiable to software so that the appropriate driver can decide which orientation transformation to apply.
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Hey... My sgs cant recognise orientation anymore( landscape vs portrait), bubble level wont work, neither do compass. What happened overnight? Didnt drop it.... Just found tons of auto-updates. Maybe one of them caused it....
Autorotate is enabled btw... Got froyo too
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I had this about a month ago. A full wipe should fix it. Although I have to admit I didn't look for other solutions very much at the time.
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I noticed the Nexus 4 will have a barometer. Do other phones have a barometer and I've just missed this? What can this be used for?
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I noticed the Nexus 4 will have a barometer. Do other phones have a barometer and I've just missed this? What can this be used for?
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Galaxy Nexus did......but the built-in barometer that's got so many of us scratching our heads has a much different purpose. Android engineer Dan Morrill took to the social pages of Google+ to clarify the confusion. Turns out, Sammy added the barometer to help the device more rapidly acquire a GPS lock by delivering altitude coordinates to the required latitude and longitude GPS equation. From Engadget article.
The Galaxy Nexus has a barometer. It is used for things like getting your altitude to improve GPS location determination.
That's nifty. It will also help me track my altitude during my next 30km+ jump.
Very good to know guys. Hmm i wonder what app opportunities there are here...
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Very good to know guys. Hmm i wonder what app opportunities there are here...
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It would be nice if GPS test supported it. I can also image a humorous "Highest Altitude" badge in Foursquare (but who uses Foursquare anymore?).
Wasnt the Xoom the first device with a barometer?
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Wasnt the Xoom the first device with a barometer?
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Indeed....same article stated as much.
Is anything known about the quality of the barometer readings? Are they accurate enough for altitude?
You can use your barometer to contribute to pressureNET! It's a free, open source barometer network for Android. I'm building it in hopes to create a weather network of unprecedented size and resolution in order to improve short-term, local weather prediction.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork
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You can use your barometer to contribute to pressureNET! It's a free, open source barometer network for Android. I'm building it in hopes to create a weather network of unprecedented size and resolution in order to improve short-term, local weather prediction.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork
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Great idea, cumulonimbus_ca. I will get it the day my nexus is delivered! Keep up the great work. I'll do some reading up about it in the mean time, i.e. Privacy policy.
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Great idea, cumulonimbus_ca. I will get it the day my nexus is delivered! Keep up the great work. I'll do some reading up about it in the mean time, i.e. Privacy policy.
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Agreed, I'll load it the day my Nexus is delivered also.
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Does anyone know its resolution ? The Barometer on my Galaxy S3 is pretty good, I'm a paraglider pilot and i use it as a Variometer, it works pretty well.
Since i'll get a Nexus 4, its time to get more info on that barometer.
How dare anyone collate the atmospheric pressure imposed on thee.......... How dare they?
Flouride in the water supply is bad enough!
barometer for calls/ mic
Actually the barometer is used for mic noise cancellation, it is used to calibrate the pressure on the mic to be nicelly centered for calls. :cyclops:
I thought the barometer was used with the Garmin car app, which plugs into my OBD II sensor in my car, in order to measure how much psi of boost is coming from my turbocharger.......
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I noticed a few days ago that the Nexus 4 came with a barometer sensor that is used to help the GPS accuracy. I decided to test this out using Barometer HD. It worked great and allowed me to save my pressure data.
However, the past two days it's been saying "No barometer sensor detected". Thinking this was GPS related I tried turning it on, but no luck. I ran Z - Device Test and it says I do not have the sensor either.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thinking about the N4 as a secondary phone but I played with one in the T-Mobile store and noticed that pinch to zoom seemed to be pretty unresponsive and disappointing and that's putting it lightly. When pinching to zoom it felt as if I was moving my fingers through quick sand. It was as if my fingers had to literally transverse half of the entire screen before the phone started to react. Can anyone else confirm this? Like I said, this will be my secondary phone and my primary will be an iPhone 5 so I will going back and forth between the 2 phones often which will make the poor responsiveness even more noticeable and bloody annoying since the iPhone is very responsive and accurate in this department. So now I'm rethinking my purchase of this phone. Again can anyone confirm this??? Thanks
mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
Its like people are just finding reason not to buy this phone cause it has real issues or they just like to complain....personal I think your all crazy . My coworker got his nexus 4 last week and its ****ing awesome the camera in HDR mode is amazing the data speeds are top notch and the screen is responsive. I don't know it everyone and there mama was playing with the display phone at T-Mobile ,but here a story I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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There was another thread on this yesterday - this is actually Google almost certainly designing around someone else's patent on touchscreen usage. They probably figured that what was going on in older versions was too close to Apple's or someone else's precise method for interpreting multitouch input, so they designed something effective but different enough to avoid litigation. There's a reason why neither Apple nor Microsoft have sued Google directly over Android - Google designs around patents pretty well.
I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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but why should you zoom in accidentally? you use two fingers to zoom..
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Falzar said:
I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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Epic
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I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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I hear ya, but even still it'd pretty annoying and making me think before I buy. Honestly I'm a stock app kinda guy. I like the stock apps, I actually want to use Chrome but I can't, I want to use the stock gallery since it would be more integrated but I can't without this bug/feature this will also make using Google maps bloody annoying more than anything as when using maps there is a lot of zooming in and out. I'm wondering if other ROMs have this issue with the N4 or not.... Hmmm... That would be an indicator if there was more of a real issue/hardware level issue or not. Wondering if Cyanogen, Paranoid, or AOKP would have the same issue...
this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.
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this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.
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So you're saying right out of the box you can go into settings and configure pin h to zoom to react immediately rather than after transversing half the screen before it starts reacting?
Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Awesome . hopefully Google will fix it for stock users
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Which ROM and could you perhaps record a video for us?
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Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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I'd like to know wHich ROM that is as well. I ordered my N4 but I definitely want to fix this before I do anything as.
Hi. I have had this Nexus 4 for about a month and it has does some strange things with the graphics on the bottom bar of buttons. Please see the screenshots attached. It can happen every few minutes and as soon as I touch the screen it will revert to normal again.
Is this something that is likely to get fixed with an update or a hardware issue?
I can't find anything on the internet referring to the same problem but the sales guy in the local carphone warehouse has a nexus 4 as well and said his does the same :-/
Anybody know what is causing it.
Completely stock BTW oh and as you can see. Pressing the hardware buttons for a screenshot does not fix it. Only touching the screen.
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Wow.. thats not normal! I would look into RMA'ing that sucker!
You could try using a toolkit to reflash stock to see if that helps, however you will have to unlock the bootloader, flash stock rom and then relock bootloader, then you just go into settings and do a full reset to hide the developer options then you will be stock. The toolkit I use is this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2015469 and its awesome just follow the on screen prompts.
I'm quite sure that this is a software issue, since hardware issues can't be captured by screenshots obviously. I'd recommend flashing it with whatever you like and do a factory reset. You can restore all apps afterwards ofc (use Titanium Backup for example).
Best regards!
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Hi. I have had this Nexus 4 for about a month and it has does some strange things with the graphics on the bottom bar of buttons. Please see the screenshots attached. It can happen every few minutes and as soon as I touch the screen it will revert to normal again.
Is this something that is likely to get fixed with an update or a hardware issue?
I can't find anything on the internet referring to the same problem but the sales guy in the local carphone warehouse has a nexus 4 as well and said his does the same :-/
Anybody know what is causing it.
Completely stock BTW oh and as you can see. Pressing the hardware buttons for a screenshot does not fix it. Only touching the screen.
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OP, did you try checking "Disable HW Overlay" in the Developer's Options????
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I'm quite sure that this is a software issue, since hardware issues can't be captured by screenshots obviously. I'd recommend flashing it with whatever you like and do a factory reset. You can restore all apps afterwards ofc (use Titanium Backup for example).
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That only means that it isn't an issue with the physical screen. It could still be an issue with the GPU or other hardware, since various hardware is used to create that software image in the first place.
I have seen exactly this sort of picture posted in at least one thread before on here before, though that might be hard to find on a search.
I would also recommend reinstalling the ROM and if it still happens then it must be hardware. I strongly suspect that it is the hardware.
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Thanks for all the replies
I have now disabled HW overlays and it does seem to have fixed the issue (or at least made it far better, I have not noticed it since but it has only been an hour)
I will keep in eye on it for a bit and if it lasts cone back and change the title of the thread to solved.
Thanks for all the help guys.
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That only means that it isn't an issue with the physical screen. It could still be an issue with the GPU or other hardware, since various hardware is used to create that software image in the first place.
I have seen exactly this sort of picture posted in at least one thread before on here before, though that might be hard to find on a search.
I would also recommend reinstalling the ROM and if it still happens then it must be hardware. I strongly suspect that it is the hardware.
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hmmm, and the gpu just decides to screw up down there in a perfectly aligned rectangular shape that happens to resemble the navigationbar? i think thats unlikely.
gimpor, can you play gpu accelerated games? try please.
its probably googles weird 4 layer stuff. thats why disabling hw overlays fixes it. same guy that screwed up the kernel colors that merged it into 4.2.2 btw. : P
gimpor again,
hwoverlay is not permanent, a reboot unchecks it. try this
replace persist.hwc.mdpcomp.enable=true
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in your build.prop
or in the worst case persist.hwc.mdpcomp.enable=false
Its much better but still not fixed. Only done it once in about 8 hours whilst playing a solitaire game. I will try the other suggestions when I have decoded them into English :-/
I have not found any games that don't work yet, bad piggies etc. Seem to work okay. Would they be GPU accelerated?
Once again thanks for the assistance with this, it does get rather annoying when you show someone your phone and it's all garbled.
It still does this though :-/
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Its much better but still not fixed. Only done it once in about 8 hours whilst playing a solitaire game. I will try the other suggestions when I have decoded them into English :-/
I have not found any games that don't work yet, bad piggies etc. Seem to work okay. Would they be GPU accelerated?
Once again thanks for the assistance with this, it does get rather annoying when you show someone your phone and it's all garbled.
It still does this though :-/
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This crap has been happening to me as well in both places of my phone are you on PA??? I hate to think it is that but here is my most resent shot!!!
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I am guessing you mean paranoid android? No. Completely stock.
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I am guessing you mean paranoid android? No. Completely stock.
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Ya it was happening on stock as well for me too but I thought it was only my SMS I see you say others are having the same problem... Did you find out if it was hardware or software??? Have you done anything at all or is it still screwed???
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I haven't found out anything further and it's still doing it but not as bad. It doesn't seem to happen to every stock phone so I'm guessing its hardware related, or at least something in software not playing well with this specific hardware. Mine is a 212 so they may have changed something on the later ones. I got it from Carphone warehouse on the UK as they were the only ones with stock. I had it changed already as the first one I got was DOA. I think it's going to have to go back if I can't get it fixed soon.
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I haven't found out anything further and it's still doing it but not as bad. It doesn't seem to happen to every stock phone so I'm guessing its hardware related, or at least something in software not playing well with this specific hardware. Mine is a 212 so they may have changed something on the later ones. I got it from Carphone warehouse on the UK as they were the only ones with stock. I had it changed already as the first one I got was DOA. I think it's going to have to go back if I can't get it fixed soon.
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Please keep me updated so you haven't rooted it???
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Not rooted. Completely stock. If it gets any better I will post back here.
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Guys. Sorry for kinda hijacking this thread but can anyone tell me what this is? It happens every time retract the keyboard and has been happening since first boot. I flashed factory IMG, factory reset and even formatted my phone. For some reason nothing. Again, i am just asking help. Thanks!
Any one else have a jittery screen? Occasionally my screen seems to glitch and like... I don't know... Fizzle to the right kind of and then returns to normal. Is this a known issue? Any one else have the issue I describe? I can't tell if it's the phone or the firmware (Stock), and if resetting it will work out or not. I think it's the phone personally and could classify as a manufacturers defect. Any thoughts?
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Any one else have a jittery screen? Occasionally my screen seems to glitch and like... I don't know... Fizzle to the right kind of and then returns to normal. Is this a known issue? Any one else have the issue I describe? I can't tell if it's the phone or the firmware (Stock), and if resetting it will work out or not. I think it's the phone personally and could classify as a manufacturers defect. Any thoughts?
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That started happening to me too; I just thought it was an app freaking out. Every now and then it just jiggles left and right, as if it were shaking. Heck, I even had it happen in TWRP w/ Safestrap when doing a backup.
You have me worried about my own device now, lol.
I am on 4.1.2 and have not seen this issue before the update. I am rooted, but not unlocked.
Yea happens to me too never happened until the update
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It happened to me before the update but not at all this bad, nor as noticeable.
Maybe it is software related them. This came with 4.1.1 just updated the other day and now it is definitely worse.
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Mine does it as well. Looks similar to how the screen shakes when you enter the screen lock password incorrectly but seems to be random. Most likely a software issue.
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Yeah, but, it happens way too much for it to be acceptable or normal. Simple as that, my phone should not be twitching.
It went from happening once or twice every other day, to happening more than ten to twenty times a day. That's unnecessary, and unbelievably annoying.
I think I'm going to call Motorola.
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Same here. mines rare though
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Happens to me as well, both at the lock screen and when using the phone, ( like browsing the internet) Most likely software related and not something to worry about
Mine does it too, seems to be common with this device.
I would assume firmware too, due to the above report of it happening in recovery.
It should still be brought to Motorola's attention in my opinion. It seems to be getting worse on my device though.
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Happening to me to. I'm completely stock, non-rooted, running the latest OTA 4.1.2
Seems to be getting worse too
Happening to me since the update as well. Stock unrooted.
Also seems to be increasing in frequency.
Yeah my frequency is increasing as well here, and I'm thinking it's firmware / hardware, not software. Driver issue maybe? But I'm thinking it's mostly hardware related since most seem not to be having the issue we have, leading me to believe it's a manufacturer's defect
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Yeah my frequency is increasing as well here, and I'm thinking it's firmware / hardware, not software. Driver issue maybe? But I'm thinking it's mostly hardware related since most seem not to be having the issue we have, leading me to believe it's a manufacturer's defect
it doesnt happen on cm10
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Zero Computing said:
Yeah my frequency is increasing as well here, and I'm thinking it's firmware / hardware, not software. Driver issue maybe? But I'm thinking it's mostly hardware related since most seem not to be having the issue we have, leading me to believe it's a manufacturer's defect
it doesnt happen on cm10
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Hmm, so other ROMs are unaffected. Interesting. Weird since mine does it in safe strap (twrp), but I guess its a very low level driver freaking out.
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Not sure really. It's like to switch to another Rom to test if it happens on non stock on my phone... But I'm not doing anything to it until I see a Rom that I feel is stable enough and aosp based.
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Hey, just curious if anyone with this problem has used the xfinity app for watching video at all... I now have a similar problem on this s3 im using after using xfinity app
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It was happening to me after using the full!screen app. I uninstalled and wiped caches while in recovery and problem solved
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