Every couple of hours my orientation get stuck on portrait. it means I can't play games that uses movement, when take a picture it doesn't recognize that I took it horizontal, my launcher stops rotate and also youtube and the image gallery. you got the picture.
downloaded "android sensor box". nothing happens in "accelerometer" and "orientation".
on CPU-Z sensor test it seems to work (values changes).
restart my phone fix the problem but it stops working again after a couple of hours.
I restart my phone 5 times a day because of this issue.
tried reset using GPS Status --> Tools. didn't work.
tried starting my device on a flat surface till lock screen. didn't work.
any idea what to do? my phone is 2 months old.
thanks.
I found what caused the problem
Just came back to update that I found out what cause this issue.
After full reset to my device, I've noticed that the problem started after installing a certain application from the play store.
It's an Israeli app called "Isracard" (to manage your credit card account).
When I've uninstalled it this problem solved. Reinstall it again brought the problem back.
I've notified the developers. Pretty sure this issue is unique to nexus 4 users because it's a well known app.
So for a couple of weeks everything is working fine.
If anyone else has this issue just try to locate which app caused this mass by enabling / disabling apps one by one and change rotation setting under display settings after each time.
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Okay, I have a weird problem. Everything I open the camera app, the phone completely shuts off. It used to work just fine a few days back. Even if its another app that's has to use the camera, it would do the same thing. I'm not sure if its some of the apps that I been lately?
P.s. I been using my phone heavily and the battery last a long time. 8 hours just using 40% battery life. Battery life expanding to 18 hours.
mhh strange .. i dont have annything simular ...you could try use barcode scaner and see if that its a sofwtare ( app ) problem or driver problem ... you also can try to reflash the phone with seus ... if that dont work eather there might be a hardware fault that cause the crash ...
good luck ( remember there is somthing calt warranty )
I've got this problem at the moment, using an X10i on R1FA014. The handset froze and shutdown when i opened the camera sometimes, so i got it exchanged only to have the same problem with a new, identical version of the phone. I went into my 3 store to see what they suggested, but apparently they suggest it's something to do with an outdated SIM card.
I've tried altering the screen timeout settings, default camera settings and all sorts. The problem seems to occur most when i wake the phone from sleep and then immediately run the camera, but not every time. Really, really frustrating - does anybody else have this?
Couple of things that you should check..
1. Do you have any Task Killers/ managers running that might be screwing with things?
2. Did you install anything immediately prior to the problems starting? sounds like something's interfering with the camera app causing a fatal error..
I had the same problem about 60% of the time I ran the camera it rebooted. I forced an update/repair with the update service which wipes all your apps and settings. Same thing happend. A few emails back and forth with SE and they said there was a fault. I phoned Orange and less than 24hrs later I had a working replacement. I'm much happier now. Barcode scanner and Google Goggles all work nicely.
I'm having the same problem. When i try to open camera app via icon or camera button, phone will crash and restart or sometimes open and give the message 'camera not available'. I contacted SE support and they reckon that to date nobody has reported the issue. I seriously doubt that! They said to try and reset which doesn't work. Now they are ignoring my emails. This is the last SE phone i buy!
Anyone got a fix? I tried what everyone else mentioned but no luck so far.
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Hello,
ok, I gave up on moving APPs to external SD on ICS 4.0.3...
Here is my new issue in a nutshell....
I updated to ICS 4.0.3 with no problems and everything worked fine for months. Within the last month, the tablet has developed a random problem, usually 30-90 seconds after it boots, where it may or may not freeze up (i.e. the screen is unresponsive) and I have to turn it oss and reboot and hope it doesn't happen again.
Sometimes this happens one or two times in a row and then its fine, sometimes it will happen five times or more, and then the next boot it is fine, sometimes it works fine on the first boot.
I have removed all kinds of apps and media to make sure I have lots of room and curently have about 5G free. but that didn't fix the issue.
I looked into the GPS txt files being left behind and made sure they are removed regularly, but that doesn't help the issue.
I used a Device Info APP to display what is going on when this happens, and while it doesn't show any APP or process I can see as the culprit, the CPU is being maxed at 100%?
It also seems to have "something" to do with the WiFi, as when it "locks up" the WiFi icon in the tray goes away and when I go to settings it seems stuck trying to turn off the WiFi. But at other times then the WiFi is working fine?!
Also, sometimes if I let it go to sleep for too long, when I wake it up this will happen..
SO... anyone got a clue what this could be?!
So I only noticed the issue a few days ago. I turn on my tablet (running 5.1.1 stock, non rooted) and it locks itself into portrait if held in that position and likewise for landscape. Now when I attempt to auto-rotate the screen the usual way, nothing happens.
Any apps that use a forced orientation setting like Google Books (which I have set to forced portrait) will force it from landscape into portrait mode and remain that way, even after closing the app. Likewise for apps that force portrait to landscape.
I've tried checking that auto-rotate was enabled, tested. That it wasn't enabled, checked. Re-enabled it and checked.
Tried the same process above, but with a reboot in between each step.
Tried a few apps that use the accelerometer and found that it appears to be working fine:
GPS Status & Toolbox by MobiWIA - EclipSim - full range of movement detected.
Accelerometer Sensor by Victor Dmitrienko - full range of movement detected.
Sky Map by Google - full range of movement detected.
Heard people on Nexus 7 had solved it by disabling Google Now and Location Services. Tried both of these, rebooting the tablet each time. No fix.
Tried factory resetting the tablet - Backup & reset > Factory data reset.
Nothing seems to fix the issue. It only seems to have arisen since the recent 5.1.1 update. Anyone got any suggestions on what else I can try to fix this? Would I be right in assuming, that as other software apps seem to suggest the accelerometer is working, that this is an OS issue and NOT hardware?
I've become so despondent, I'm considering donating my tablet to my parents and looking for a replacement.
Thanks in advance for anyone that can help resolve my issue.
A desperate N10 user.
i don't think it's a problem with the 5.1.1 update as i had this problem on kitkat, it was working fine for ages then suddenly out of the blue it wouldn't auto rotate. then when i got the ota update for lollipop the issue went away and it has never come back even after the other lollipop updates. i never could find a solution to it so i can't really help you, i just got lucky that it went away by itself
Hi,
Can you try reflashing system firmware? It seems a system issue and this might help solving it.
All the best,
~Lord
"This Story Ends Where It Began" - Octavarium (Dream Theater)
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After a while the top part of my screen will completely stop responding to touch. I can't pull down the notification area or press anything on the upper portion of the phone. After, I reboot it works for about 30 seconds and then the top part of the screen will stop working again. The only thing that will fix it is to wait it out. Maybe a few hours later it will start working again. Then a couple days later and the same thing happens. I think maybe my phone is overheating from some app or something and then it causes this to happen for some reason. That would I guess explain why it starts working after while, because the phone had a chance to cool off
Anybody else experience this?
Yes your not alone with this issue.
This happened to my galaxy S8 plus after using twitter.
I uninstalled the app but I hadn't regained the ability of touch response.
I don't have a backup device but have ordered an older model so that I can further diagnose.
In the meantime I found an app to help counteract the problem. ie. Rotation - Orientation Manager
To be clear this is the top portion of the screen from Very top to about a half inch down.
I verified by using a touch sensor test app. ie. Yet Another MultiTouch Test
I've also did the soft reset, clear cache, and since I use a third party Home Launcher reinstalled it. ie. Nova Launcher Prime
Good luck!
This is a problem I didn't notice right away. I attribute it to the QF2 update because wife also has an S7 and experiences exactly the same issue.
In a matter of hours after reboot the internal sensors stop working or behave erratically. Sometimes the phone would go to the lowest brightness, the screen will not turn off by the proximity sensors during a conversation. Functions relying on shaking the phone stop working. Some (but for some reason not all) apps don't switch to the landscape mode. I downloaded several sensor testing apps and they confirmed my suspicions. After the reboot everything works, but several hours later sensors start showing random values or "no data".
Does anyone else have the same problem? With two affected phones in my possession it can't be a random fluke.
The phones are not rooted.
I had an issue where the phone no longer responded to "OK Google". Turns out I uninstalled all the updates to the "Google" app and reinstalled them from Google Play and that fixed it. I wasn't sure if it was the OTA for the phone or something else, but the OTA might have jacked something up somewhere. Have you cleared cache and such to see if that fixes it? Otherwise, I'm having no issues with the sensors not working.
Thanks for your suggestion. My phones are set for manual updates. I updated everything and rebooted. The sensors worked fo about 12 hours and stopped. Which cache you recommend to purge? Google app?