I am not sure if I had to create a new thread for this but I seem to have a weird problem:
The volume rocker on my phone isn't as sensitive as it used to be - specifically the volume down.
It still works but I have to press it pretty hard (as compared to volume up).
I got my Nexus sometime in January (the 2nd batch) and I've had no complaints since. I've dropped the phone once but that was from about 2-3 feet high (a good month ago).
My main concern is that eventhough it works now, what if it completely dies in a few months? And God forbid this happen to the screen on button!
What are my options here? How do I get it fixed? Can you guys point me to the right direction?
Thanks!
Depends how you bought it was it Google play was it from Tmobile are you stock non rooted ect until we know these answers we will not be able to help you
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I bought it off Google play. Everything's stock.
Bump!
I've gone completely paranoid and I've stopped using the volume down completely. Now I use Volume up and then use the touch to reduce volume
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Hey all, just checking to see if anyone else has had problems with their volume rocker. In the two weeks that I've had the phone, about half a dozen times it has become stuck on the volume(-) down button. This forces the phone from Ringer -> Silent -> Vibrate, where it sticks just vibrating continuously.
When this would happen, a quick tap of the volume(+) up button solved the problem, However... somehow the (-)button is now permanently jammed. I have no idea how this could have happened as I treat my phone better than my own body.
To top it off, I tried restarting the phone because it was not responding due to the stuck volume rocker, and now I'm stuck at the boot loader
gunna take it back ASAP. Anyone else had their G2 volume button stick before?
I've had this happen many times but its not the button getting stuck. It happens when I never touch the button as well. Right now the phone is also doing random vibrates when using the optical pad. Might have to give tmobile a call now.
I don't have this problem but sometimes a slight touch to the volume down button presses it
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wow that would be annoying, but no i have never had that problem a single time
i too has this happen to me. i will keep an eye on it and if it happens again, i am going to call tmo. this phone seems to have alot of hardware issues.
Oh, yes. I know I wasn't crazy!
Has it happened that it stays vibrating after an unlock?
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no problem here
did you get some sticky substances on the side of your phone?
I push volume down all the time by accident when I'm typing with the hardware keyboard. Never got stuck though.
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Got this phone for my wife and it is happening to her all the time...
If it continues we may be returning it for a new one.
The past few weeks I've been noticing that my DHD often vibrates at random times, when it should not do this at all.
It just vibrates (in stby mode), nothing else but I always think I'm getting a call or a text, which is pretty annoying.
Sometimes it vibrates just once, but also sometimes it vibrates 3 times, very fast and hard. Last night it even woke me up...
Anyone having the same issue?
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Had this today when I bought it out of standby. Thought I had a text or email or something but there was nothing. Never noticed it happen when in standby though.
This happens regularly on mine too! its frustrating! you think you have a call or a message but you dont! :s
Its probably caused by your signal going from hspa (3.5g) to 3g to gprs
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Isn't this called Blackberry syndrome? Imagining your phone vibrating, just so you can check it!
Seriously though, I dont have this on my DHD. It was present on my Hero though. I think its your phone getting lonely because your not using it.
If you press the volume rocker right in the middle it will vibrate 1 time and sometimes it will do 2 quick vibrates following the first one. This is probably not related to your case but it fits under the random vibration for other that might not know about it.
I noted you get a vibration when you signal goes out, and when it comes back again.
it does happen on mine too...
but i think i know the cause... its usually after using the volume buttons when it does it
but after installing CM, it doesnt do it anymore... i think its something to do with stock ROMS (mainly sense)
+1 more for that, i thought i was going mad when i first noticed it, but after reading this im feeling a bit more sane,
stock rom btw
Mine does it too. I'm using Custom Modaco Rom. When I go to unlock the phone it vibrated but not all the time. Never in my pocket though. I thought it was 3g watchdog playing up but other people getting it too so not that. It did it just now reading these posts hope it doesn't get worse.
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Mine does it too. Got used to it now though.
Mine does this, but I know when it does it and why.
Usually it's either when unlocking the phone, or pressing the power button to lock it.
The reason why? It's because I have fat hands and accidentally press the volume down button when using the phone, causing it to go into vibration mode (which makes the phone vibrate once to let you know).
It's confusing, but entirely my own fault.
That's kinda diffirent from what I'm having. Mine does this without going into vibration mode or anything elsr for that matter. It just vibrates, even when locked and when the screen's off...
Just noticed that it does indeed have something to do with the volume buttons. Just lock your phone, press down both of the volume buttons, unlock it and then you will feel the 3 vibrations
I've noticed mine vibrates when launcher pro crashes, happens while i'm listening to music and try changing the volume sometimes, every time it happens the next time i unlock the phone launcher pro has to restart.
Although I have noticed it some times vibrates when I try to lock or unlock the phone and accidentally hit the volume buttons, not sure what happens there though.
EDIT: Just been trying to lock and hold one of the volume buttons, I've noticed it locks up for a second or two, so it's most likely something crashing I think.
Really sorry to bump a thead from a few weeks ago - but has anybody had any luck with resolving this?
This is the only thread I could find on the matter, and it's becoming a big annoyance for me. It's NOT when I go into vibration mode or anything, it can be anytime - even when the screen is off.
matthiasdeblaiser said:
That's kinda diffirent from what I'm having. Mine does this without going into vibration mode or anything elsr for that matter. It just vibrates, even when locked and when the screen's off...
Just noticed that it does indeed have something to do with the volume buttons. Just lock your phone, press down both of the volume buttons, unlock it and then you will feel the 3 vibrations
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I just tried this and you're right - the three vibrations. Perhaps it's by design but I can't see why.
Anyway it's nice to know how to do it on purpose; mind you I used to get it all the time with my old cheap case, with my new case it's never done it "by itself". It seemed a bit odd but I assumed the case was "pressing" both volume buttons when on standby from time to time (makes sense).
I've noticed when i'm putting the phone in my pocket (or out), i tend to grab it on the top with the volume buttons. And yes, it does vibrate when i accidentally press them.
Try it yourself.
Regards, clumsy long fingered dude.
Mine used to do this as well. It would be sitting on the desk not touching anything, screen off and it's just idling doing nothing on stock sense rom, then it would just vibrate randomly a few times. It was a bit spooky and it kept doing it randomly :/
It has since stopped doing that, no real reason I can see why, I have flashed LeeDroid but it stopped randomly vibrating before that.
I'm on AR HD and it's still doing it.
I'm not too bothered, but a fix would be nice.
If I keep randomly pressing buttons on the phone, it will make random vibrations. Sometimes one, two or three. I don't have to press the power button, the phone screen can be turned off, and the phone doesn't go into silent/vibration mode either.
I just played about with the volume buttons now and I got a bit of lag on my phone, lasted for about 15 seconds then went away...
I'm about to exchange my phone, but I wanted to check here if anyone might have seen a similar issue, or have a clean solution to the problem.
If I press the volume rocker (up or down) and the power button simultaneously, then the screen will shut off, and then turn back on to show the lockscreen. The display doesn't timeout, but if I clear the lock screen, then the phone sometimes acts as if the volume rocker is held down. That means if the volume down was depressed, then the phone continuously vibrates.
I was able to recreate the problem at the Sprint store, but I haven't heard of anyone else on the forums being able to do so. Can anyone here recreate the bug?
It seems that this should be a software issue with the screen off procedure, and perhaps a wiping of the original rom might help. So far a factory hard reset using the built-in procedure hasn't cured the issue. Anyone have ideas?
I tried it and it doesn't happen on my phone. I did notice that if I held the volume down that the vibrate would stay on as long as the button was held down.
Ohh, that feels funny and tickles! Hey guys, tell your lady about this feature... Watch sprint get a bunch of shifts with burnt out vibrating motors. Lol
I read about this on the AndroidCentral forums, and I can't get mine to do that. It will sometimes stop the lock process, but it hasn't gotten stuck on vibrate. The other people I read about also said their phones didn't do it.
ah, I was looking for the link and realized that was you (or someone with the same screen name and problem haha) on the other forum, so I'm sure you already know that part.
Yeah, that's me. Just thought I'd try a different audience in case there were some different ideas. Thanks for responding though. Hopefully the exchange won't be for a bug worse than this one like the screen scrolling up while messaging.
The earlier post just made me realize that none of my other phones could ever continuously vibrate. haha. Maybe button free continuous vibration is a feature not a bug?
Did you try a factory reset on the phone?
I was just able to reproduce this easily.
Kinda funny.
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Argh. I just exchanged my phone today and the new one does it too. I talked to an HTC person on the phone while at the store and they hadn't heard of the bug before. They also couldn't get the bug to reproduce, but I think it's just a matter of hitting the buttons enough times and at the right time. I also think the phone has to be in a ringer mode (at least two levels from the lowest setting).
I'm thinking I'm just going to have to get a case to make the rocker volume harder to hit. I think the size of my hands are just perfect for aligning my left thumb on the rocker when I'm powering off with my left index finger.
I did try the factory hard reset too, but no improvement other than it seemed like the odds of reproducing the bug went down a bit.
I don't see why this would be an issue, how often does one hit the volume rocker and the power button simultaneously? I've yet to come across this, and the thought of pressing the two buttons at the same time has never crossed my mind.
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oboroninja said:
I don't see why this would be an issue, how often does one hit the volume rocker and the power button simultaneously? I've yet to come across this, and the thought of pressing the two buttons at the same time has never crossed my mind.
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It would be great if I could claim to be an awesome bug tester, but unfortunately that is not the case. I discovered the bug because I was inadvertently hitting both buttons at once when turning off the display. I have the fortune of my hand being perfectly sized that my left thumb lines up exactly on the volume down rocker when my left index finger is on the power button. Same is true for my right index finger and right ring finger. It actually took me some time to figure out the cause of the continuous vibrate mode.
It would have been nice to replace the phone with a non-buggy version, but for now I'll just have to have better finger coordination haha.
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It would be great if I could claim to be an awesome bug tester, but unfortunately that is not the case. I discovered the bug because I was inadvertently hitting both buttons at once when turning off the display. I have the fortune of my hand being perfectly sized that my left thumb lines up exactly on the volume down rocker when my left index finger is on the power button. Same is true for my right index finger and right ring finger. It actually took me some time to figure out the cause of the continuous vibrate mode.
It would have been nice to replace the phone with a non-buggy version, but for now I'll just have to have better finger coordination haha.
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Lol understood.
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I've had this happen to me a few times too. It's probably a Sense (or HTC's Android build) bug not a problem with the hardware.
Makes me think of the old joke doc it hurts when i do this. Well dont do that lol
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Just wondering if I'm the only one. I got my Xoom back from Moto the other day after the 4G radio upgrade. Haven't had much chance to play with it until now. Finally got around to reinstalling my Thumb Keyboard that I had become accustomed to before. I noticed there was no sounds on key presses. I went into the options and made sure the key press sounds were on, and turned its volume all the way up. Still no sounds. Double checked the Android settings to make sure all my volumes were up. They were. Still no key press sounds. I swapped back to the stock Android keyboard and made sure it was set to have key press sounds - still nothing.
After a bit more toying around I realized that while the Android setting for playing sounds on locking and unlocking the device is set to on,I'm not getting those either.
However, media plays. Music, videos, etc... all work fine.
So, A) am I doing something wrong? Is there a hidden volume setting somewhere other than the 3 in the Android sound settings section?, or B) did moto somehow screw mine up?, or C) is this a known issue post-update, and I just suck at searching the forums to find others with the same problem?
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Nobody else? Great...
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Honestly, I don't remember my Xoom ever making noises on key clicks.
It's not that huge for me, I would like it like the Touchpad has the clickity clack on each key press. But I have no recollection of my Xoom ever having it. I use the Swiftkey for Tablets keyboard though also so I don't know.
Did you ever solve this problem? Because my Xoom started doing this a couple of days ago. I've seen a few posts about it, but none with solutions.
Go to apps/all/android keyboard
Force stop
Clear data
Restart Xoom
Enjoy
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ok this may have bin brought up if it has sorry -
well i have had my nexus 4 or a little over a year never dropped it never got it wet i have kept great care of it -then i updated to 4.3 and my wifi wouldnt work i knew it was soft ware issues so i rooted it - it fixed my problem and i was using a pacman rom for the longest time - now my ear speaker isnt producing sound when i make or receive a call -- it does work on speaker phone but its either the sensor or the screen - im leaning towards soft ware in the sensor - that makes it almost impossible for my screen to turn on while in call mode ill have to hit the power button continuously till i can actually get it to pop on long enough to me to hit the speaker button as soon as i hit it everything functions normal -- i have since stripped everything i could think of on my phone i have reverted back to oem rom and radio - im not sure what else to do if any one can think of some thing or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated