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Looks like it was my generic charger causing all the problems all along...
Too high output (6.5VDC where it should be 5VDC)
Ordered a replacement, hoping for the best.
Thanks for all the help!
Sometimes my touchscreen is just perfect. Lately, it's driving me nuts!
When I hold my finger on the screen, the touch screen registers rapid multiple touches. Possibly as many as 10 per second.
This makes dragging and long-press actions almost impossible. Scrolling is very hard and typing is a PitA.
The problem goes away at times but keeps returning. I'm not sure if I had it before the recent update.
At first, it seemed like rebooting helped but today it proved useless.
Anybody, please help!!!!
(phone was used and has no warranty coverage )
dfan said:
Sometimes my touchscreen is just perfect. Lately, it's driving me nuts!
When I hold my finger on the screen, the touch screen registers rapid multiple touches. Possibly as many as 10 per second.
This makes dragging and long-press actions almost impossible. Scrolling is very hard and typing is a PitA.
The problem goes away at times but keeps returning. I'm not sure if I had it before the recent update.
At first, it seemed like rebooting helped but today it proved useless.
Anybody, please help!!!!
(phone was used and has no warranty coverage )
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Do you have a screen protector on the screen? Sometimes the cheaper ones are too thick and the screen doesn't register touch like it should.
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Do you have a screen protector on the screen? Sometimes the cheaper ones are too thick and the screen doesn't register touch like it should.
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Just the one that came on the phone.
Like I said, the phone works beautifully some of the time but registers multiple contacts other times.
I suspect software but it seems I'm the only person with the problem...
do you have a warranty.... sounds like a hardware fault to me.... the only way you can prove it's software (or not).. is to do a factory data reset and then run it with the standard basic build for a few days.. see if you still have problems when you don't have any other apps on the phone.
Do you have wet fingers when you experiment this behaviors?
Happens to me too. I figure its due to gunk on the screen like water, sweat your gf's makeup (a major one)
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This happens to me too.
Only started happening since the last update so I just assumed it was a bug in the new firmware. It's like the phone lags and then catches up with itself, very annoying.
bushbox browser said:
This happens to me too.
Only started happening since the last update so I just assumed it was a bug in the new firmware. It's like the phone lags and then catches up with itself, very annoying.
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I think it is since the update. I'd better reset the phone using SEUS and see what happens.
@ everybody, believe me, I have had the problem through a variety of circumstances and no problem with sweaty fingers etc. It seems pretty random!
I don't have a warranty so re-install here I come!
I would definetly try the factory reset first. I have had similiar issues but its only been while typing quickly. It lags a bit and then it all shows up on the screen plus a few extras of whatever the last character I typed was.
I did read somewhere, can't remember exactly where, that because our screens are capacitive they can malfunction. What I mean is this:
"Surface Capacitive touch panels: a layer that can store an electrical charge is created on the glass panel. When a user touches the monitor with his or her ungloved finger, a portion of the charge is transferred to the grounded user reducing the charge on the capacitive layer. The controller calculates, from the differences in charge at each corner and determines where the touch occurred."
Sooooo if say the ground for the screen is damaged then it will not register your touch appropriately. Hopefully it just requires a reset, cause the latter I think would be a tougher fix.
Let us know
dfan, is it happen only when you charge your phone? What charger are you use? Original?
I did a restore but no change, issue still there, it doesn't happen often though.
Dose seem like a bug and it never happened to me before the last update.
Also it happens to me when not charging.
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very bad.. you cannot drink a cold coke and use the phone. I think that it is a hardware related problem. I was trying to reproduce the same with N1 and Legend (with my fingers flooded) without problems. So.. guys with hyperdrosis keep away from this phone!
No it's not a hardware problem as it only started happening with the last update.
Remember the x10 uses different software to nexus one or desire so can't compare with them.
I believe it's the software lagging, this update is faster overall but just lags occasionally, maybe the next software update will fix it, and if not the 2.1 update should definitely fix the issue.
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bushbox browser said:
No it's not a hardware problem as it only started happening with the last update.
Remember the x10 uses different software to nexus one or desire so can't compare with them.
I believe it's the software lagging, this update is faster overall but just lags occasionally, maybe the next software update will fix it, and if not the 2.1 update should definitely fix the issue.
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Are you pretty sure?
Tested... it is present on old roms
Well the old roms were laggy as hell anyway. It seems like classic software lag so I still think it's software.
Maybe when 2.1 is released we will find out, or even better when we get stock android running though root, that would clear it up once and for all.
My iPhone 3g also suffered from similar lag issues.
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I would definetly try the factory reset first. I have had similiar issues but its only been while typing quickly. It lags a bit and then it all shows up on the screen plus a few extras of whatever the last character I typed was.
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Sooooo if say the ground for the screen is damaged then it will not register your touch appropriately. Hopefully it just requires a reset, cause the latter I think would be a tougher fix.
Let us know
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Hells yeah I don't want a defective screen or this thing is done!
regarding your first comment, this is not lag. It is like I had a turbo button. If I touch for more than 1/15 sec, I get 2, 3 or 4 letters.
instead of one long press, the screen continually registers new presses, no matter how firm my touch is.
Imagine how much fun it is drawing the unlock pattern when my phone's in a bad mood...
That dose sound different to the small lag I occasionally experience, very odd.
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I've reinstalled the FW and it didn't fix it.
The other day I had 5 straight hours of rapid-fire screen during which I couldn't even unlock the phone.
Gonna have to send it in for repair. Anybody know how expensive S-E are for repairs? Is it even worth doing?
I have narrowed the suspects down to my generic charger.
The charger I bought outputs over 5V (claims 6.5V) which seems to be the problem since I don't experience the issue when charging from a USB port.
New charger ordered, fingers crossed.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
i have had my vibrant for a few weeks and i charge it nightly(due to low battery so don't say over charging) and every morning i wake up and the screen is on but totally black, and the capacitive buttons are lit up but don't do anything. the only way to fix it is to pull the battery and reboot the phone that way. also the phone seems to be getting EXTREMELY hot while charging(in a case or not). this morning when i woke up i had to pull the battery yet again except for this time when i turned the phone on, the screen was wonky. the bottom half of the screen does not come on, and there is a vertical pink line through the rest of the screen, and the touch screen no longer works. i will be calling t-mo later this evening to get a replacement but i would think that this shouldn't have happened. i was more than willing to deal with the overheating on the charger but now that the screen doesn't work i have to use a STOCK mytouch that absolutely blows.
if anyone has any suggestions or has seen this before please comment i would love to know what caused this so i can avoid it with the new phone.
P.S. no physical damage or water damage so those are both out too
Sounds like a faulty unit, get it exchanged. Sounds like a bad connection causing a short.
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I ran into the overheating problem and the Screen not turning on when i was messing around with underclocking mine and had my settings all messed up. Dont know if you are doing that or not. The other part def sounds like a bad unit.
Do you have setcpu installed? It seems to cause issues similar to this.
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The phone is actually used mainly by my fiancee, so only thing done was root, lag fix, and vibrant6, but after som overheating issues I removed lagfix and never installed setcpu or anything else to OC the CPU. Called tmo, they have a replacement on the way but it still seems off that this would happen.
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Okay, so I am having issues with my power button, mainly because when I go to put my phone to sleep or wake up, it very oftenly pushes the button twice, thus I sometimes have to push it several times to get it to turn the screen off or on.
My question thus being (the reason I put this in the developer forum) is there a way to fix it via putting a delay on how often the button recognizes being pushed?
Pretty much putting a 100ms delay on each press so it can't wake up and put it self back to sleep in a split second.
And if this IS possible, is it possible without needing a custom ROM? or could I put in a fix via temp-root and push it through with ADB?
Man I thought I was the only one with this problem, thank god im not it wasnt a biggie, but it starts to get annoying after a while :/
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Man I thought I was the only one with this problem, thank god im not it wasnt a biggie, but it starts to get annoying after a while :/
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Yeah, it seems like it would be an easy software fix. But no1 has address the issue that I've seen D:
sometimes i have problem also, issue cant be replicated but it happens....
I don't know. I just pushed my power button several times in a row and I don't see a problem. Never had since day one. Could be the way you're holding it. The button is kinda back a little compared to other devices.
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I don't know. I just pushed my power button several times in a row and I don't see a problem. Never had since day one. Could be the way you're holding it. The button is kinda back a little compared to other devices.
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Thats the crazy part, when you realize it happens, you try to replicate it and it works flawlessly, but if you happen to be just using the phone and you click the button it sometimes skips randomly.
Border-line being locked
mdayjr said:
I don't know. I just pushed my power button several times in a row and I don't see a problem. Never had since day one. Could be the way you're holding it. The button is kinda back a little compared to other devices.
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I can actually replicate it, mine must be really sensitive. And yes, I have tried holding it many ways. I see it most often when its on my desk and I'm using it tho. but its not uncommon at all for me.
It wouldn't bother me if it wasn't all the time, but its pretty much every other time for me :[
Never had the problem until few days ago, and it's starting to happen quite often now. I'm a little bit worry being a hardware problem rather than a software problem.
Well? Whatever problem, just remember, you have 1yr warranty
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I think it wouldn't be so much of a problem if we had trackpad wake embedded already, but if ur using visionary isn't there some trackpad wake/or maybe trackball wake for the nexus that will work?
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demallic said:
Never had the problem until few days ago, and it's starting to happen quite often now. I'm a little bit worry being a hardware problem rather than a software problem.
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Well I am sure its a hardware problem that can be fixed with software. If the hardware is sending multiple presses then software can compensate and tell it to only actually register lock presses once every few milliseconds.
My question is it possible to do it with a minor tweak to the code?
TMo already has a replacement in the mail for me because of this exact reason...The guy said I was the only person who said something like this was happening. Guess he was wrong, seeing other people with this issue makes me happy.
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JRG1392 said:
TMo already has a replacement in the mail for me because of this exact reason...The guy said I was the only person who said something like this was happening. Guess he was wrong, seeing other people with this issue makes me happy.
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Yeah, I did the same thing. However, if my new one can't overclock to 1.42ghz at least, I will probably ask for another one
I want my G2 more future proof.
ditto. bump.
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Yeah same here....sometimes freaks me out cuz I'm like oh no my screens black...I feel my heart fall a lil lolz
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Too bad no1 knows if this can be fixed in software.
I believe this issue is with people who did the temp root and OC'ed it to 1.42ghz. I noticed when I press power to unlock the screen, the screen will not light up right away, than it does for a faint second and shuts back off. I have to press the power button again and the unlock screen shows up. I hope this does not cause any other issues with the phone. Otherwise ill have to leave it at the stock speed.
I have had this issue since I got the phone, so it's not anything to do with overclocking.
I am running the CM7 with the newest OTB kernal, and I am still getting the keyboard randomly popping up, the back key randomly will work 2 or 3 times in a row. I had the same problem on EF 3.6, com rom and even on the SC roms. Has anyone else had these random key strokes? I heard it was a froyo related issue? Is it hardware related? I had a screen protector that covered the soft keys and removed it, but it is still happening. Any thoughts on how to get rid of it?
FWIW I have odined back to stock, with the atlas pit and even used the ext4 reformatter before I switched to EF3.6.
Any help, advice or thoughts would be great.
I encounter the same issue but it always seems to happen when on the edge of losing cell signal. When going back n forth quickly from service to no service the capacitive buttons (I believe that's what they are called) seem to push themselves. And I have noticed this issue since DJ05 on any rom I have flashed since then and any kernal. I have run just about every rom posted except for miui and cm7. I can not confirm if cm7 has this issue because it is on my other fascinate and not on the cell network. I have terrible signal in the building at work and I have always seen this happen there, at least once a day.
You know am pretty sure I replied to this question before. I guess no one else has really has this issue and the thread died.
Also didn't matter which radio verison I used. I have come to terms that my fassy is just possessed lol
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apparently you and I are the only ones that it happens to. I was hoping someone could give me some insight on how to at least find some relevance to a rogue program, bad kernal/rom combo or something. It's very strange and it does it to me more than once a day, and I have good signal most of the time.
Happens to me all the time when I'm at home where I have terrible signal.
I just started having this happen on CM7. The keyboard or the menu would randomly pop up. For me it happened more than just when I had bad signal, but it did seem to happen more often when I had poor signal.
I have this problem too, it would back out of apps I am in too. Quite annoying.
I've been having this problem as well on CommRom 2.1. Seems to be related to poor signal for me. It's pretty annoying to deal with.
Happens on a stock device also
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Happens on a stock device also
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Um. No. Not in my experience. Its something that has been well known that is associated with weak/intermittent signal. Didn't start for me until Comm Rom and became more pronounced with CM7…
This happens to me too. Oddly though it only seems to happen during the night when it's plugged in and it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes I will wake up in the mornings and my screen is on and the keyboard is up.
Do a search for phantom softkey presses. It's pretty common and is a hardware issue.
I as well have this happen. Mostly it happens in low signal area. Recent, my keys just stop working, until I got better signal, or sometimes I am forced to restart the phone.
I just went back to stock ED05 mainly because of this ultra annoying issue and I am completely devastated to find out that it's still #$*%ing happening.
I am so pissed too because I called VZ a week ago and they offered me the Charge replacement, but I couldn't make it to the corporate store until yesterday where I was informed they stopped the replacement policy that day and that I was SOL. Argh. So angry.
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I am running the CM7 with the newest OTB kernal, and I am still getting the keyboard randomly popping up, the back key randomly will work 2 or 3 times in a row. I had the same problem on EF 3.6, com rom and even on the SC roms. Has anyone else had these random key strokes? I heard it was a froyo related issue? Is it hardware related? I had a screen protector that covered the soft keys and removed it, but it is still happening. Any thoughts on how to get rid of it?
FWIW I have odined back to stock, with the atlas pit and even used the ext4 reformatter before I switched to EF3.6.
Any help, advice or thoughts would be great.
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I commented on this a while ago in the CM7 thread. I have it on stock ed04.
What I wanted to know was if you guys have a screen protector on yours or not.
I wondered if my Zagg Invisible Shield was what was "pressing" the capacitive buttons.
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lane32x said:
I commented on this a while ago in the CM7 thread. I have it on stock ed04.
What I wanted to know was if you guys have a screen protector on yours or not.
I wondered if my Zagg Invisible Shield was what was "pressing" the capacitive buttons.
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You have a shield on gorilla glass???
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tyler1234567 said:
You have a shield on gorilla glass???
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Verizon makes a metric **** ton selling screen protectors to those spending $200+ on a smartphone that doesn't need it.
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Um. No. Not in my experience. Its something that has been well known that is associated with weak/intermittent signal. Didn't start for me until Comm Rom and became more pronounced with CM7…
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Well, just to back this guy up. I had it happen back before and during the time I rooted my phone, and it still happen after I returned to stock (via Factory reset and OTA updates).
EDIT: To the guy who asked about the screen protector, I did have a ZAGG on there, then took off only the section covering the softkeys. Still did it even after I made sure to fully clean it to eliminate any residue. Took the protector fully off, same full cleaning, and it seemed to have gotten worse (if thats possible lol).
I'm about to call tech support, but wonder if it's worth it now that the good trade-in is over.
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Well, just to back this guy up. I had it happen back before and during the time I rooted my phone, and it still happen after I returned to stock (via Factory reset and OTA updates).
EDIT: To the guy who asked about the screen protector, I did have a ZAGG on there, then took off only the section covering the softkeys. Still did it even after I made sure to fully clean it to eliminate any residue. Took the protector fully off, same full cleaning, and it seemed to have gotten worse (if thats possible lol).
I'm about to call tech support, but wonder if it's worth it now that the good trade-in is over.
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yeah im sure it happens but its fairly rare on a stock phone i would say....
I have it happen semi-regularly. I'm currently on MIUI 1.7.22 / Glich 11.1 / ED05 radio, and never used a screen protector. I also had it happen back before when I was on Super Clean 2.9.2 (don't recall the radio), as well as most any other ROM I've been on.
It's not too uncommon that I would hit the power button to turn off the screen when back on SC2.9.2 and instead it would take a screen shot, because it assumed the back button was being held down!
Gotta love the Fascinate...
jpricesd said:
This happens to me too. Oddly though it only seems to happen during the night when it's plugged in and it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes I will wake up in the mornings and my screen is on and the keyboard is up.
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Yup, I got the same issues! Although minor, these things just shouldn't be happening? There's gotta be a fix for this?!?!?!
My phone will switch to landscape orientation when completely closed. I can finally get it to switch into portrait by SLIGHTLY nudging the screen to the right. I've been having this problem ever since I got my EVO Shift around June. It's particularly annoying because it causes the screen to wake, and my phone is usually in my pocket causing it to move around. I often find my phones display is randomly on when I pull it out. It causes even more problems when I'm listening to music.
I want to know if anyone else has experienced this problem and/or if anyone has a suggestion/knows how I can fix this issue myself.
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What Rom are you using? Are you rooted? You can disable Auto rotate. Menu-Settings-Auto rotate , and uncheck it. But it should not be rotating on the home screen unless you flashed a mod to do so.
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What Rom are you using? Are you rooted? You can disable Auto rotate. Menu-Settings-Auto rotate , and uncheck it. But it should not be rotating on the home screen unless you flashed a mod to do so.
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Changing that setting does not do anything. As I stated in the title, this problem is related to the hardware keyboard. The mechanism that detects if the hardware keyboard is open or not is malfunctioning. It's detecting that it's open when it's completely shut, thus causing orientation switch.
EDIT: Just to clarify, this has happened on multiple roms. Stock 2.2/2.3, CM7, and MIUI. I'm currently running MIUI. I just want to avoid turning to Sprint to fix this issue ;(
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Changing that setting does not do anything. As I stated in the title, this problem is related to the hardware keyboard. The mechanism that detects if the hardware keyboard is open or not is malfunctioning. It's detecting that it's open when it's completely shut, thus causing orientation switch.
EDIT: Just to clarify, this has happened on multiple roms. Stock 2.2/2.3, CM7, and MIUI. I'm currently running MIUI. I just want to avoid turning to Sprint to fix this issue ;(
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Run G-Sensor calibration (bubble level in market if not on sense) and see my CM7 optimal settings thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262313
Basically want only 0 and 90 degrees of rotation. That should help.
If it did it on the stock Rom unrooted, than I would have to say it's a hardware issue. If it started after you rooted, than I would just RUU back to stock and see if that fixes the issue. But you might as well try the RUU if you have to take it back to Sprint anyway. The Froyo 2.2 RUU is HERE if you do decide to go that route.
I'm positive it's a hardware issue. I can't remember exactly when I got my Shift, but it was stuck on 2.3 OTA. The problem was occurring then and is still present on all the custom ROMs I've tried so far. I guess I'll just have to take this thing up to my Sprint repair store ;(
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I'm not absolutely sure about the shift, but I know a lot of phones "read" the position of the keyboard by magnetic movement. Your magnet may have come loose. Any drops you remember? Very possibly. I wouldn't sweat taking it in if you have a repair store near by. It should be a quick fix.
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Mine did this all the time... I got the htc case and there is no more wiggle to the keyboard and it stays completely shut... I actually just got a brand new replacement, so this problem happened with my old shift...
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drob311 said:
Mine did this all the time... I got the htc case and there is no more wiggle to the keyboard and it stays completely shut... I actually just got a brand new replacement, so this problem happened with my old shift...
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I was thinking a case may fix the problem and/or prevent future problems. I've been looking at the OtterBox Commuter case. It's on sell for $21.85 on Amazon, but I'd like to find something a little cheaper. Any suggestions on a good, inexpensive case?
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I was thinking a case may fix the problem and/or prevent future problems. I've been looking at the OtterBox Commuter case. It's on sell for $21.85 on Amazon, but I'd like to find something a little cheaper. Any suggestions on a good, inexpensive case?
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What ever you do, dont get the black carbon fiber holster and shield from sprint, when i used it the thing would short my screen out and i would have to flick it really hard in the middle to get it to come back, i removed the case and it has been fine since
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What ever you do, dont get the black carbon fiber holster and shield from sprint, when i used it the thing would short my screen out and i would have to flick it really hard in the middle to get it to come back, i removed the case and it has been fine since
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Weird. I'm rocking that same case now without that problem.
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Weird. I'm rocking that same case now without that problem.
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It started about 5 months after i got my phone, and then i was forced to deal with it because no root so it hasnt dont it since i took the case off
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