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Momentary black screen

Anyone had this one? Since 4.2, the screen momentarily goes black, with a similar transition to hitting the task manage soft key, but transiting to the left in landscape, then flicks back to normal use. Happens in apps...screws up some games, puts others into pause mode as if a task has been switched. Thought it might have had something to do with auto rotation going a bit bonkers, but not sure....
Not heard any reports...have looked through the forum, couldn't find anything.
Weird...it just did it then....but the keyboard stayed on screen, xda disappeared to the left...
Any thoughts and thanks in advance
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Thank God! Thought it was just me!
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Ok..just happened again while in portrait mode. Definitely saw it flick to landscape. Rotation is locked btw.
Hmmmmm.....
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It happened to me three times last night after update to 4.2 :crying:

Ok...so, while sitting in a tedious meeting, Nexus in landscape, propped up with its folding case the screened flipped upside down and stayed upside down. 3 times. My ipad using colleague giggled.
Any way to recalibrate the tilt sensor? Or any other suggestions?
It's not the end of the world but...there must be a patch solution or other? Before 4.1 I used the auto rotate app, I forget its correct name...
Thoughts?
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I used logcat to monitor the Nexus 7 until the random rotation happened. After looking at the log I realized that it was always the same process being activated and that process was nVision.
Since nVision always rotates into landscape mode I was suspicious that perhaps when it tried to update itself in the background it was changing the screen orientation. I disabled notifications and then uninstalled the app and the problem has completely gone away. I have had no random rotations at all in the last 24 hours.
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Thanks very much. Ill give it a try and report back
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Okie doke.
For the record.... 48 hours and no random flips to landscape and back. I'd be willing to be a substantial amount of money this was the culprit. However, whether this is a 4.2 issue per se vs. Bad behavior in nVision is an open Question.
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Ok. Disabling nvision notifications still flips out. Will uninstall later.
Thanks again
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Uninstall it. I still think it checks in and screws your screen, whether it shows you the notification or not.
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Uninstalled...all good so far. Woooooo!
Cheers!
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Amber Alert text

I keep getting this text and in the beginning it asked me if I wanted to ever receive these and I selected yes but I am getting the same one back to back every other hour and its getting annoying. How do I turn it off?

Settings > More> Cell Broadcast
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If you turn it off, you won't know what time on the 21st the world will end..
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noodles2224 said:
If you turn it off, you won't know what time on the 21st the world will end..
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Lmbo

[Q] Lower flash brightness

Is there any way to lower how bright the flash is when taking a picture? Are there any settings within the stock camera app or is there an aftermarket camera that does this? Using filters to darken the picture works ok but it sucks seeing good pictures ruined by how bright they ended up. Really disappointed with the camera on the Nexus 4 especially coming from the HTC Amaze and even my wife's SG2 does a better job.

Turn down the exposure to -1?
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ravneetg said:
Turn down the exposure to -1?
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That did help and even went as low as -2. Thanks

Delay after taking picture

Any idea why is phone camera taking about 2-3 secs after each picture to save/finish proces, so you cant take any more pictures? There is 1-2s progress bar showing that camera is working some stuff, but dunno what. Its slow and annoying...

Wlk said:
Any idea why is phone camera taking about 2-3 secs after each picture to save/finish proces, so you cant take any more pictures? There is 1-2s progress bar showing that camera is working some stuff, but dunno what. Its slow and annoying...
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I've only ever seen this on Samsung devices when taking a picture in HDR mode

You need to disable image stabilization. It is turned on by default.
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MohJee said:
You need to disable image stabilization. It is turned on by default.
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What he said.
You'll find it as "Smart Stabilization" under the camera's settings.

[Q] processing of a photo takes about 3 seconds

The processing of a photo takes about 3 seconds, is this normal for the note 3?
My old note 2 did not.
Thanks in advance

jayjay112 said:
The processing of a photo takes about 3 seconds, is this normal for the note 3?
My old note 2 did not.
Thanks in advance
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Yes it's normal and you can turn it off in camera go to settings then turn off Smart stabilization.
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Dahdoul said:
Yes it's normal and you can turn it off in camera go to settings then turn off Smart stabilization.
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Thanks that did it.:good:
just one more question. How can i get rid of the date formats in photos?