Hello, This is my first post on XDA and hope this is helpful to some extent. I have been using my Arc S for quite a while now and still didn't know what all the different parts on the actual phone were and so am going to share this knowledge with some of you people who may not now what they are/ do.
The picture I attached shows the the parts which most people don't know about such as proximity sensors etc and where they are located. However, there are more obvious buttons and things which most people should know but just to be sure:
Obviously the button at the top left is the power/lock button with the HDMI cable on the top right side.
The First physical button at the button is the back button, used to back out applications, menu's etc and can be used to enter flash mode (Green LED)
The second button is the home button and is used to get back to the home screen and can be configured in some custom launchers (launcher pro, adw, go launcher ex etc) to open different menus or applications of your choosing.
The third button is the menu/ options button and opens up options available on the homescreen/ applications e.g settings or widgets and is also used to enter fastboot mode (Blue LED)
The button at the bottom of the right side is the camera button and the Volume buttons are just above that and under the LED light.
OH RIGHT nearly forgot one, the small circle under the lens of the camera/flash is the second microphone and the small circle at the bottom of the phone is the first microphone
Hope you guys enjoy
Dinesh
When I first read that thread, I was reluctant to believe that anyone would find it useful.
BUT, alas, I remembered that my boyfriend has the Arc and after 2 months he still thought that the proximity sensor is actually a front-facing camera...
Thanks I know its probably only helpful for noobs but, believe it or not, there are a few around
iridaki said:
when i first read that thread, i was reluctant to believe that anyone would find it useful.
But, alas, i remembered that my boyfriend has the arc and after 2 months he still thought that the proximity sensor is actually a front-facing camera... :d
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Όλα στον Αντώνη!!! :d
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I almost never use the camera mode on my Trion, but last night I wanted to take some shots at a party. When I tried to turn on the flash the icon was gone from the screen. I tried the function list it has flash on/off but when I hit "on" nothing happens. Like I said I almost never use the camera, but I know it use to work. The only thing I did recently was add Hermes Tweek from fit4cat. I have tried soft reset, but I realy don't want to hard reset just for a stupid flash. I'm not the most tech savey guy, so I live in fear of bricking my phone every time I rom update. I like the way its set up now, so if it has no flash so be it.... But the pictures I could have had of last night.....Well, photo ops like that don't happen every day!!!
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pdausr1 said:
I almost never use the camera mode on my Trion, but last night I wanted to take some shots at a party. When I tried to turn on the flash the icon was gone from the screen. I tried the function list it has flash on/off but when I hit "on" nothing happens. Like I said I almost never use the camera, but I know it use to work. The only thing I did recently was add Hermes Tweek from fit4cat. I have tried soft reset, but I realy don't want to hard reset just for a stupid flash. I'm not the most tech savey guy, so I live in fear of bricking my phone every time I rom update. I like the way its set up now, so if it has no flash so be it.... But the pictures I could have had of last night.....Well, photo ops like that don't happen every day!!!
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pdausr1
You probably know this but in case not - as you don't use camera often, the flah icon will vanish if the camera has slipped off straight picture mode into the mode where it takes a series of pictures. i.e if you look top left corner you should see a logo of a camera not three symbols of pictures lying on top of one another. I find mine constantly slips off straightforward picture mode because the jog wheel gets moved without noticing. The jog wheel cycles through all the different camera and video modes.
Mike
Nope its in single shot normal camera mode, but thanks for the tip on the scroll weel I did not know that. I think one reason I don't use the camera more is I hate using the styles when I'm taking a picture, so if you have anymore hardware button tricks you want to share.
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pdausr1 said:
Nope its in single shot normal camera mode, but thanks for the tip on the scroll weel I did not know that. I think one reason I don't use the camera more is I hate using the styles when I'm taking a picture, so if you have anymore hardware button tricks you want to share.
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Don't need stylus for camera. Start camera with button on side of case.
Take pictures with the Dpad button ie one in centre between the two phone buttons.
Accept the piture by pressing it again and your ready for the next picture.
Exit camera by pressing OK hard key button.
Mike
You are ok how ur now mate.....the flash is useless if not u want to use it for torch....even pictures taken from 5-6 feet away dont get any diffrence with flash on and off at night....though 1-2 feet picture will give you a lot of change...all white washed brighten up dude!!!!! i did took atlist 200+ picture with my tytn but i cant remember a picture which were benifited from the using of flash....
anyone any comment??
Night photos
Yup, Sajib, you're right - day photos pretty good, night photos rubbish. Flash 80% useless except for certain angles when taking night photos in macro. I have nothing I would need to photograph in macro in the dark but there maybe many who have!?
Mike
Well I guess I will just have to find my keys with the light of the screen, as that seems to be the only thing it good for. Thanks for the tips. Who knows mabey the flash will come back when I get up the guts to flash the Cingular rom.
Hey,
my Hermes fell on the floor and now the camera button is not working anymore..no big deal since i hardly ever use the camera anyways...but in the rare occasions i do, i just wanted to re-map the camera to another button..which worked fine, only problem is that i can't take any pictures since i am not able to re-map the 'take picture' funktion ! can anybody help me ?
thanks
When camera application is active, you can take pictures using the center directional button.
LOL... DOH! It's not like the world comes to an end if the camera button is broken...
Thanks hacqua,
found it out myself yesterday
@NRGZ28
did somebody mention 'the end of the world' ? must've been a different thread pal..
LOL....
My camerabutton has also a failure on it, and I used the enter-button on the keyboard, the button is much easier.
Thanks
i dropped my phone hard a week or so ago and was trying to find the same answer.
yeah anything that does an enter will take a picture.
keypad. center button. pressing down on the scroll wheel. all will take a picture.
I wonder what it is about that button that makes it so "fragile"
I basically, not literlly, threw my phone at concrete... it scuffed and the camera button broke. Internal speaker wire came undone as well.
had to void the warrenty to open it up and fix it but i was amazed at the phones durability at least externally.
now if only the software was as solid.
Yesterday at a concert i was nervous because i cannot film dark places with my phone but i tried anyway. I started the camera, used on/off to put phone in standby and soon after called it back to life to check time. i pressed the camera button to delete the video but the camera started overlaying today screen and i saw it was working perfect in total darknes where lights flashed here and there.
this is new to me but i was able to film almost a full hour without glithing.
can you ppl with different ROMs duplicate this?
so i was thinking.. there must be something that starts/stops when you put phone to standby while camera is working.. cant we just make the phone start/stop that everythime we press camera button (when we find out what it is)?
call me idiot or whatever if what im saying is wrong
i noticed the same behavior some months ago, probably with a different ROM. didn't have an answer for this
topic has 51 views and only your reply. looks like its "normal" i guess
but with latest pcarvalho rom my TC is perfect, only camera sucks
rofi03 said:
i noticed the same behavior some months ago, probably with a different ROM. didn't have an answer for this
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1.Open your camera..
2.Put your fingers in front of the len
3.push the power button to bring device to stand by,and after 4 seconds,
push again to wake the phone.
4.Now release your fingers from the len and you have a very quick camera.
If you can't do it with the first time ,follow the steps and do it again
kostas244 said:
1.Open your camera..
2.Put your fingers in front of the len
3.push the power button to bring device to stand by,and after 4 seconds,
push again to wake the phone.
4.Now release your fingers from the len and you have a very quick camera.
If you can't do it with the first time ,follow the steps and do it again
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its working great
is there any way to work always... after close camera and open again you must do it again....
there is no need of holding your finger infront of camera or whatever its only done by standby->wakeup. but you have to be in darker-than-full-daylight place and it only works while you point at dark. if you point to light the thing somehow resets and its all over again.
i posted this because i want to know if we can somehow force this behaviour to allways. i am sure this is just a minor flaw in code. any programmer here with any ideas about this?
i cant believe no one cares about this...
hey guys,
i want to collect all (hardweare) issues u have with your desire z. i bought mine on monday, got it on wednesday.
since i have the device, i see these issues:
Touchscreen does not respond while the device is plugged in to the power adapter and is fully loaded (when its still loading the touchscreen works perfectly)
nothing happens when i press the trackpad button (is it a button? when i press on it i can feel the pressure point like a standard button)
display does not stay in position when you hold the device tilted
what issues do you have? can you confirm the issues i have?
espacially the touchscreen issue is strange and annoying
the-virus said:
Touchscreen does not respond while the device is plugged in to the power adapter and is fully loaded (when its still loading the touchscreen works perfectly)
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My touchscreen works fine so far and doesn't have this problem. Maybe you use a non-standard charger? I once experienced the same issue on my old Motorola Milestone with a Blackberry charger (the touchscreen became erratic), changed it to my original charger and didn't receive any problem since.
the-virus said:
nothing happens when i press the trackpad button (is it a button? when i press on it i can feel the pressure point like a standard button)
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Yes it is a button. If you use it on a list pressing the trackpad is equivalent to a tap. If you mean to use it to wake the screen then it will not work as the standard Sense UI doesn't support this.
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display does not stay in position when you hold the device tilted
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I grew accustomed to hold the upper part of the phone (the display) with both of my index finger when using it at bed. I once perceived the hinge mechanism as a "weakness" for this phone, but I learned to get pass this.
The trackpad button basically works as an "Enter" button. It has no function on the homescreen. But you can use it to select an item on a list, such as the apps page, or the links on a web page.
What angle do you mean, when you say the screen moves? In the "normal" angle (right side up, with the phone tilted towards me), mine is very solid. If held upside-down (such as typing while in bed), the keyboard has a tendency to close, as its pretty much meant to do. Just the slightest pressure from my index fingers will hold the screen in place (I find my index fingers to rest on the sides of the screen naturally, and hardly even have to think about it).
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Hi there,
first i am sorry if i am creating this thread on wrong place, i am new on the forum.
Problem i have started when i dropped my N4. I have Ringke Fusion case and it did good job - no cracks no broken screen - everything is at perfect shape...
But, my 3 bottom soft keys are going mad right now. It is like somebody (ghost) is constantly pressing all three of them Then, i figured out that not the buttons are problem but that part of the screen. While it looks OK (colors and everything) touch is not working. Sometimes it does but only if you hold your finger long enough. All other time it is like it has mind on its own. So problem is that lower part of the screen. It is making me issues with every single application i use - always like someone is pressing that part of the screen constantly... you can imagine what it feels like... I have tried to hard reset the phone - same story.
Now, i know that replacing the complete screen will probably fix my problems but this is not an option at the moment. No money for that. My question is: is there a way to totally disable just that part of the screen? Totally disable it? Or perhaps you can offer me any other solution?
Thank you in advance!
Does the bottom part work during Wizard Setup but not after appearing of navigation bar?
kontini said:
Does the bottom part work during Wizard Setup but not after appearing of navigation bar?
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It seems it is more like a HW problem. If i press button and hold it for sec or two then it can work but not every time. In the meantime it is pressing by itself - look at the video i made just now, cannot paste the link here since i am new but name of the video is: Nexus 4 - ghost buttons on YT
Honestly, i cannot remember if it was working OK or not during wizard setup... is there a way to start wizard again so i can answer your question?