[Q] HELP S-View screen flashing when on EDGE - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
It's been a few months that this has been happening on my S4 GT-I9500 and it's driving me crazy because i haven't been able to find any solution online yet.
When my phone reception is on EDGE, the S-View Screen (Black screen with the clock on the upper part) starts randomly flashing every few seconds or few minutes depending on how much it feels like driving me crazy. I've googled the issue and it seems some others have it too but no solution found.
Here are the things i tried with no luck:
-Changing Modems
-Changing roms
-booting in safe mode
Only thing I think i can do is flash CM or some other AOSP ROM, but personally, I don't feel they're stable enough for daily use yet (for me at least)
Does anyone have any other ideas on how this issue can be solved? Should i send my phone in for repair? All the sensors including the magnetic sensor are working fine if I use the S-View cover and this issue only happens when my phone is on EDGE in bad reception areas.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

I also had same issue and there is no solution of this issue right now.. some users reported that board replacement also cant fix this issue.. i saw a xposed module somewhere to disable s-view magnetic sensor to solve this issue.. u can try that.. i have returned my s4 for these issues and asked for returned so i dint get a chance to test that.. but some users also reported that module worked for them
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Solution is here---( May be )
I was suffering from the same problem and finally today I got the solution
All you need to do is... Open back cover
then there's a screw on right side where "L1" is written , open it (i have just lossen that screw a little bit)
u r done
try it
for me it worked
that screw get magnetised which causes this irritation may b u can replace that with a brass one
Dont forget to click thanks if I helped
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Rsoub said:
Hey guys,
It's been a few months that this has been happening on my S4 GT-I9500 and it's driving me crazy because i haven't been able to find any solution online yet.
When my phone reception is on EDGE, the S-View Screen (Black screen with the clock on the upper part) starts randomly flashing every few seconds or few minutes depending on how much it feels like driving me crazy. I've googled the issue and it seems some others have it too but no solution found.
Here are the things i tried with no luck:
-Changing Modems
-Changing roms
-booting in safe mode
Only thing I think i can do is flash CM or some other AOSP ROM, but personally, I don't feel they're stable enough for daily use yet (for me at least)
Does anyone have any other ideas on how this issue can be solved? Should i send my phone in for repair? All the sensors including the magnetic sensor are working fine if I use the S-View cover and this issue only happens when my phone is on EDGE in bad reception areas.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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I was suffering from the same problem and finally today I got the solution
All you need to do is... Open back cover
then there's a screw on right side where "L1" is written , open it (i have just lossen that screw a little bit)
u r done
try it
for me it worked
that screw get magnetised which causes this irritation may b u can replace that with a brass one
Dont forget to click thanks if I helped

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Have to Align Screen again and again - it Annoys me

Hey i don't know what happened to my Wizard but suddenly after installing two Alarm Clock softwares i just started losing my Screen Alignment. To fix it i even tried re flashing my Wizard but this time the problem started early and without installing those programs. Did anyone of you have the same problem?? If you do have a patch do post it in reply. Cause after using the ROM I'm using now all the other ROMs seem to be too Slow.
NOTE: Information about my Wizard is updated and in my signature.
Thanks in Advance.
HI,
Have you ckecked the connection between the screen and the print? Maybe it has a bed contact?
If you still have warranty, the you better send your phone back to let it repair
good luck
jordyk said:
HI,
Have you ckecked the connection between the screen and the print? Maybe it has a bed contact?
If you still have warranty, the you better send your phone back to let it repair
good luck
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Hey im sure that there are no problem with the HARDWARE cause if there were problems with the hardware then it should not even work after i align screen and secondly if you know any ROM faster than mine (mentioned in my sign) cause when i switch to nayother ROM they seem to be too slow.
xda2_haseeb said:
Hey im sure that there are no problem with the HARDWARE cause if there were problems with the hardware then it should not even work after i align screen and secondly if you know any ROM faster than mine (mentioned in my sign) cause when i switch to nayother ROM they seem to be too slow.
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hi,
but you said that you heve the problem with all the roms, isn't it? so then it must be a hardware problem?
xda2_haseeb said:
Hey im sure that there are no problem with the HARDWARE
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Well there's your problem right there. Anyone that sure of anything can't be right about it.
Seriously though. This sounds like an intermittent fault, and that is the domain of hardware failures. This kind of thing happens when hardware ages. Especially around things with moving parts. That slide-out keyboard wreaks havoc on the ribbon over time, and eventually, they just give out. You may have one that's merely loose, or it may be getting ready to break, or it may already be broken and just touching often enough to make you think it's okay.
The chances of this being firmware or driver-related are really slim. If that was the case, the error would be constant, not intermittent.
Myrddin Wyllt said:
Well there's your problem right there. Anyone that sure of anything can't be right about it.
Seriously though. This sounds like an intermittent fault, and that is the domain of hardware failures. This kind of thing happens when hardware ages. Especially around things with moving parts. That slide-out keyboard wreaks havoc on the ribbon over time, and eventually, they just give out. You may have one that's merely loose, or it may be getting ready to break, or it may already be broken and just touching often enough to make you think it's okay.
The chances of this being firmware or driver-related are really slim. If that was the case, the error would be constant, not intermittent.
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hey i guess that SLIM chance has won i installed another ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367375) Its been a day and its working f9.
jordyk said:
hi,
but you said that you heve the problem with all the roms, isn't it? so then it must be a hardware problem?
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Sorry! but i dont guess i said that anywhere by reflashing i meant reflashing the same ROM. If the problem still presists then it might be a HARDWARE fault but for now its working pretty fine.
Forgot one thing, if this is an HARDWARE issue then is it fixable?? if yes how?
hey man i had this annoying issue whenever i remove the battery..but it should be OK when u do alignment a couple of time repeatedly...try it and post the results here..
I have had alignment problems for a long time. Clearly mine is hardware related, since stock and custom ROMs both show the same problem. Sometimes I'll go for months with no problem, and then I'll have to start realigning several times a day. Thank god for smartskey, otherwise I could rarely close a program. I was told that it was probably a hardware problem and that it would've been covered under warranty (if I was still under warranty), but I never sent it off. Somebody else told me once that It was probably due to there being pressure put on the edges of the screen from the frame around the screen, and if I disassembled it, made sure the seal/padding wasn't touching the touch-sensitive part and then reassembled it, I should be fine. But I looked up the process in the service manual, and WOW it looked like a lot of work with a lot of places where I could screw up the phone, so I just live with it. Sometimes sliding it open and closed would totally mess it up. It seems to help if I just squeeze the edges of the screen to really "seat" it, and then align. Then it seems to stay pretty well aligned for a good while. Good luck!
I cooked up a ROM and installed it and it works now i dont have the problem. Please try my ROM and give me feedback link to it exists in my signature. Thanks. TC

LG gt540 touchscreen problem SOLVED

Hello all, I hope this post can help you with the same or similar problem I had.
My LG gt540 started having a problem 2 months ago, the touchscreen got offset by 2 centimetres(1 inch) verticaly down, this was very annoying specially texting and couldnt access the top panel. Ex: to unlock the phone I had to press 1 inch above the green button.
Sometimes(I dont know why) it went back to normal, but about a week since the problem started it just got permanent, I tried rebooting, taking the battery, etc, nothing worked... Even tried to go to the calibration option but the offset was to much so it said out of range...
Then I read something online about the heat caused touchscreen problems, so I was thinking... hardware dont really like heat, and I always carry my phone on my pocket, the body heat could be damaging the touchscreen, lets try cold, it could solve it, long shot but what do I have to lose?
Left my phone in the freezer for 10 minutes, turned on, and it worked! for 1 month now its back to normal!
Hope it helps you, but try first freezing it powerd off, may be safer.
i have got my phone 2,5 years and i havent got any insue with the touch screen
Hi
My phone started doing the exact same thing a week ago...
This is the only thing I haven't tried, lets see if it works for me....
Thanks
I've had screen calibration problems since i started flashing custom roms.
In my case the screen positions are slightly off at the right side of the screen. When I want to type an "p" i have to touch where the "o" is on a german keyboard.
I'm trying your solution right now.
mseebass said:
I've had screen calibration problems since i started flashing custom roms.
In my case the screen positions are slightly off at the right side of the screen. When I want to type an "p" i have to touch where the "o" is on a german keyboard.
I'm trying your solution right now.
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I have problems for the outer 4 sides.
It's worth to try.
Didn't work for me, it was only fine for 5 minutes....
Also didn't work for me.
Besides, after puting it in the freezer the display protection foil now looks a bit strange.
mseebass said:
I've had screen calibration problems since i started flashing custom roms.
In my case the screen positions are slightly off at the right side of the screen. When I want to type an "p" i have to touch where the "o" is on a german keyboard.
I'm trying your solution right now.
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I vave thar problem too, but I didn't find any solution...
Varrasco said:
Hi
My phone started doing the exact same thing a week ago...
This is the only thing I haven't tried, lets see if it works for me....
Thanks
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hope you fixed it
Hi, sorry for waking this thread up.
I also have the same problem, press 'o' to get 'p'.
I want to ask you guys who already tried this method. Did it work?
It's tempting, but it might be better to know more info.
Thanks.

Random Clicks

Hello Everyone!
Long time now, i have an issue with the Touchscreen of my MB526. From time to time it generates random clicks ... if i then send it to standby and wake it up, everything is fine again. I thought it may be a hardware-problem or a problem with the custom roms around, but when i posted this issue today on the Defy-Facebook-Group, i found someone with the same issue on the stock unrooted 231 Rom (BL7). The Same BL as mine ...
So may be, that there is an unidentified bug in our mobiles? may be some driver problem? Or is it an hardware-issue like the speaker of the MB525, that affects more users?
Maybe some of the Rom-Devs could try to find something related to the Wake-Up precedure what resets the touchscreen and clears this issue?
We need some help here ...
EDIT: There is now one more on the Facebook-Group with the same issue but on a MB525 ... so it's Defy in general and not only Defy+ ...
The same problem here
First of all thanks for addressing this problem. I thought i was the only one.
Ok so I'm currently on W.R.1.7, Defy mb525
And i experience the same problem. random touches and to reset it i have to lock my screen and switch it on again.
I haven't (and wont do till 5 more months) tried this on other roms. but it always starts after 1 week of installing wr 1.7.
I flashed the rom again thinking that it will solve the problems (this and batterry drops) it did but after a week it was back!
:crying:
Had that just today, for the first time.
Was playing Hill Climb Racing, when suddenly the gas pedal (on screen touch area) got stuck, then flickered irregularily 3 or 4 times a second for like 15 seconds. My defy didn't register the back button or the home button during that time. Switching off and on helped. It happened again like a minute later, but not as long. Didn't happen again since then, but if it does in another app I'll report back.
There is no demo function in Hill Climb Racer as far as I know, so the pressed gas pedal could only have originated from the touchsceen / driver side, not from faulty code in the game.
My Defy, MB525 (Green), has 2 years old and I have this issue since always, I didn´t use my warranty because I've rooted since i bought it, but just happens sometimes (the same issue on stock 2.1, stock 2.2, MIUI, CM7, CM9, CM10...).
OK, so this themes to be an issue that affects more than just a few users ...
there was a guy in the facebook group, that reported, that he had this issue to, but it stoped since he used a screen protector ... so this may solve this issue ... but i think this is not all ... The screen is (for sure) not designed to be only useable with an screen protector
and because of the Lockscreen / Wake up solve, this is not happening due to dirt on the display or something i think ...
would be nice, if some dev could answer this post, so we would know, that we are not alone and may maybe get some help in some time ...
@ MadMooney ... i also found this annoying in Hill Climb Racing It's exactly the gas-Pedal that is "locked" then .. bit it happend in other apps (by writing an sms fpr example) to ... so it may be some fingerpoint that we both have exactly the same issue with the same game and the same affected screen area ...
DJ_Synergy said:
OK, so this themes to be an issue that affects more than just a few users ...
there was a guy in the facebook group, that reported, that he had this issue to, but it stoped since he used a screen protector ... so this may solve this issue ... but i think this is not all ... The screen is (for sure) not designed to be only useable with an screen protector
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Even i use a screen protector (Amzer one) but that doesn't help in solving the ghostly touch problem..
Its definitely a software issue
Sent from my MB526 using xda app-developers app
I have the same problem with mine, i thought it was because since 6 months back i totally cracked my screen and havent changed it because it still works as it should except looking terrible. What i have noticed thou is that i can absolutely not use my phone while charging it because that will to a 100% result in my screen going wild
I am also facing this issue. I mildly heat the screen using heater the problem solve for one or two weeks then It again appear. I found another thing that this issue may solve if press the right side of speaker hardly. Please try these and report
Sent from my MB526 using Tapatalk 2
Same here. It happens when my screen is a bit oily so if I clean it it doesn't do it anymore.
Happens to me too, exactly as OP said, Bayer MB525
Happend with CM7.2 and CM10, I don't remember having this in stock Froyo 2.2.1
EDIT: Things that make it happens more often:
1. Any kind of liquid over screen (mainly water)
2. While connected to an USB
WOW ... such a mass of users with the same issue ... and no one ever told that before?!
OK, so we are facing an big issue with all roms and all kinds of devices / displays ... so maybe it is a driver problem, beacause it is solved if you turn screen of and wake up again ...
the issue with the charger is named here too ... i also had this problem ... with low battery and charger the screen reacts like an resistive touchscreen, not like an capacitive ... maybe these are all the same issue ...
No dev here, that can pick this thing up and have a look at it?
DJ_Synergy said:
@ MadMooney ... i also found this annoying in Hill Climb Racing It's exactly the gas-Pedal that is "locked" then .. bit it happend in other apps (by writing an sms fpr example) to ... so it may be some fingerpoint that we both have exactly the same issue with the same game and the same affected screen area ...
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Then let me add that right when it happend, i saw a tiny sweat droplet on the screen. I wiped it away instantly, but the effect stayed for another couple of seconds. Might really be that the touchscreen/driver-combo gets temporarily overloaded from the continuously moist spot.
I had that effect on other phones too, always capacitive screens. If that's all there is to it, there's probably not much we can do about it to solve it other than to make the driver less sensitive, but that would be a bad thing, if you ask me. I like that it reacts at the lightest touch.
Yeah, it reacts fine. But the idea of overload is nice ... Maybe it could be solved by setting up the Multi-Touch-Points to 5 e.g. ???
I think we need an update zip from our great developers to reduce the sensitivity of our touch screen especially for those who realy suffering due to this defect. We can find lot of topics regarding this issue in various headings like !My phone become crazy, touch screen malfunction etc! In QA section
Sent from my MB526 using Tapatalk 2
Yeah, for sure .. but if there is no dev reading this posts, there won't be any zips ...
and with the xda-board-rules you can't open a thread for that in the Dev-Section -.-
So ... we will be alone thanks to the admins and the board rules, cause no dev will read the Q&A Section ...
My phone Defy+:
I had this issue on cm7.2 tried following solution but none of them works.
1) Changed to cm10 thought it might be Rom issue but no i have ghost touch on cm10 too.
2) I applied screen guard to see if it wrks but not it does not wrk i still have ghost touch.
P.S. While charging the phone GT disappears.
Try to heat ur touch screen lightly using a hair drier
Sent from my MB526 using Tapatalk 2

Common G2 problem...

Guys so I got my G2 since last year or less since I bought it he was losing mobile network reception every 30min.. Lose it then it reconnects itself... It started to annoy me too much so I found some solution on internet to put little pieces of cardboard under the connectors which are located on the back cover of the phone. i done that and it worked till now... Problem appeared again but this time Im out of ideas, I changed pieces of cardboard rearranged them but still it loses signal from time to time and its a big problem for me... I really like this device and its community but I think that I will be forced to sell it if i dont solve this.. I was thinking about buying new back cover but I dont think that would help? Anyone experienced this problem, or if anyone has idea how to solve it permanently please tell me.

Another LeEco Le Max 2 fingerprint issue

I recently purchase a LeEco Le Max 2 from aliexpress and it worked fine for the first 2 hours but after i locked it and left it on a table for a few hours and came back the fingerprint scanner wouldn't work.
After this happened to me i started to search the internet for all the possible solutions i could find like installing the original ROM and such but before i did any of the solutions it suddenly started to work again.
It started to work for like 2 seconds and then stopped again how it happened was that i had left it on my bed with the screen on and it was starting to get really hot (the room was also hot) and i started to get angry with the device and started taping the fingerprint scanner hard in the hopes of getting it to work and it started to work for like 2 secs and then stopped and since then i haven't been able to get it to work again and yes i have tried factory resetting and re calibration the scanner also i have tried installing multiple official and unofficial ROMs .
So anyway the reason for my post is to ask for possible solutions on how to fix it and also to ask what was the issue? is it the contacts or is it a defective part.
The FP problem in this phone is well documented. As are the many seemingly magical solutions folks have found for it. Search XDA and try what solutions you can find, and if those don't work, it may be the part. If it's the part, the good news is that a new FP scanner is exceedingly cheap ($6 CAD), as are most of the tools one would need to do the repair, if they do not already have them.
I posted a guide in this section here for doing the hardware replacement. No guarantees - nobody seems to know definitively what the cause of this issue is or how to fix it, but the only thing that's obvious is it's a fairly rampant problem.
it is a software issue no remplacement needed , i have post a solution 100% working
darkside57 said:
it is a software issue no remplacement needed , i have post a solution 100% working
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Everyone who has found a "fix" to this problem has claimed that, and it's usually not even a week before someone comes by and proves they were wrong. Certainly worth trying the solution regardless, but you shouldn't make promises that aren't validated.
Heyyo, too true @TheLastCanadian (happy Canada day btw eh?) that some may get lucky with a software fix but most require a hardware replacement to resolve the problem 100%. Your guide btw is very well detailed and as long as anyone follows it to the tee? They should be safe too.
I'm unsure how old your LeEco Le Max 2 is, but it might be cheaper to just replace the FP scanner yourself than to send it back to China for a replacement as they would probably request you to pay to ship both ways...
Thanks!
I think this is a quite late reply but first i would like to thank @TheLastCanadian for his/her comment. I already knew the thing about replacing the fp scanner which you can get on aliexpress for just under 6€
but the issue i have is that i don't have the tools to do it but even if i had them and even though it seems really easy to do as shown in multiple guides i have really shaky hands and wouldn't trust myself to do it in the
fear that i would just snap the phone in half.
Also another question recently my bottom buttons stopped working on my phone and even after factory resetting they still wouldn't work (read online that it might be a software problem)
after that i thought that maybe it was the heat wave hitting my country that caused the buttons to break/stop working but still i wanted try one more time so i cooled the phone in front of
a fan for a half hour and then tried installing the original OS (the OS that i was using was the PixelExperience for LEECO MAX 2) and then it suddenly started working. So the point of this was
to ask was it a problem with that OS or was it the heat by the way even when the buttons didn't work their light was still on.
Heyyo, for the hardware buttons? It is usually a software issue yes unless the phone was dropped and screen is cracked on the bottom half of the screen (I had that happen and the replacement screen came with new hardware buttons and they worked perfectly).
For FP reader? I guess if you're uncomfortable with doing it you could ask a local mobile phone repair shop to fix it... But they might charge you quite a bit so I'd ask for a quote and link TheLastCanadian's guide so they have an idea on what they need to do.
It's honestly not too bad repairing a Le Max 2. For me, heating up the phone enough and separating the screen was the toughest part as that adhesive tape they use is REALLY adhesive and the phone was quite hot to the touch to finally get it to separate with my suction cup.
In the guide that TheLastCanadian posted he linked a very cost effective kit that is even more fancier than the random parts I had heh so I'd recommend his linked toolkit if you want to give it a go.
Hey i know it been quite while but wanted to leave an update about the fingerprint scanner issue so here it is.
I usually wipe and reflash my phone with a cfw every few months but decided to do it now even though i already did it a few weeks ago because i downloaded and ran some infected ****.
Well guess happened?? IT WORKS NOW!! the fingerprint scanner suddenly started to work again as i was setting it up. I don't think it the cfw because i'w installed it multiple times before
and the fingerprint scanner never worked but now it does, maybe its because of its hot in my room? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think its really likely to do with heat or something because the last time i got it to work for a few sec was when i first got it was after i had played some games and watched some vids in my room
which got it burning hot. Will update if it stops working again
The cfw that got it to work was the newest version of PixelExperience for LEECO MAX 2
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/development/rom-pixel-experience-t3734990

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