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[Q] Sensors intermittently not working?

Hey guys! First time poster here! So please excuse me if i make some silly statements.
I got my Nexus 4 back in the beginning of December, but has started using it until very recently (a few days ago). Everything worked fine, until a few days ago when I realized that when I rotate my phone, the screen will no longer rotate. I went into settings and made sure that auto-rotate is still on. But still, nothing happens when I rotate my phone. I have not tampered with the device in any way, and haven't dropped it or anything (in fact, because I don't have a case for it yet, I don't even carry it with me)
I then downloaded sensor box from the app store, and I realized that not only is the accelerometer not working, but neither is anything other sensor (light, orientation, proximity, gyro, magnetic, pressure), the only sensor that seemed to be working is sound, and for everything else it just says "no change detected." I rebooted the device, even reset it to factory settings, but still, nothing seemed to work.
Yesterday when I tried to turn on the phone again, I realized that the battery has died. So I recharged it and stuff. And after recharging, the sensors started to work again! all of them! So I was really happy, until a few minutes ago, when they stopped working again.
Something I noticed is that the sensors stopped working after I play games on my phone. The first time it was NFS, and the second time it was fruit ninja. The phone got quite hot when I played games, and in the case of NFS, as I was playing I realized that the accelerometer has stopped working.
Any suggestions???? Thanks in advance guys!

[Q] All sensors keep turning off until reboot

Over the last month or so, I have noticed that all of the sensors on my Note 3 seem to turn off after the phone has been on for several hours. This includes the proximity sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope at least, possibly more that I'm not aware of. When I reboot the phone, they all work normally for several hours, and then go dead again.
I have downloaded a couple sensor testing apps (AndroSensor and similar) to check. The testing apps show "waiting for event" for the deactivated sensors, and then show normal data when the phone is rebooted.
I just did a full Odin back to stock MJE, and the problem persists.
Any ideas what could be causing this, and what I could do to fix it?

No love? I've tried searching this forum and the rest of the internet, but no answers.

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I'm seeing the same issue. By any chance are you using Lux? This used to happen to me once a month maybe, but for the past month it's been happening every day or two. That's also the period of time since Lux released a bug-laden update.

Accelerometer and gyroscope not working all the time. Only after restart.

Hello,
A while back, I have noticed that my pedometer from S Health is not counting steps, so I restarted the app, but it still wasn't working. Then, I noticed that actually the accelerometer was not working. I have tested it by using #0# code and the accelerometer sensors and the gyroscope sensor have the same number value all the time. At first, I thought it is a hardware issue, but I noticed, that after restarting the phone, the accelerometer is working fine, then in a few minutes, sometimes even hours; it stops working, out of the blue. When this started I was on Lollipop, so I thought it is a Lollipop problem, so I came back to KitKat, but the problem still persists. I have tried factory reset, wiping all the data and cache, two different stock ROMs, and even NAND erase in Odin (I don't even know what that means). The problem is still there, the only thing that solves it is just to restart the phone.

Trouble with sensors after the recent update

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?

Sensors stop working after a while. Reboot fixes them.

I have been having a problem lately, I feel like it was started after the last OTA (Verizon). After a while, some of my sensors stop producing data. Most notably the compass, magnetic, and gyro. I use the magnetic sensor in a tasker task to launch car mode when I stick my phone to the car dock (it is a Spindo magnetic dock). I was having troubles with the task executing and exiting car mode when I removed my phone and noticed that the magnetic sensor wasn't producing data anymore. I looked closer using an app and noticed that a lot of my sensors stop working at this time. I am not sure if it only happens now when I use the dock, or if it just happens after a period of time. But rebooting it will bring the sensors back to life.
Anyone see this before? Any ideas on causes/fixes?

Just an update, it does not seem to be tied to using the magnetic dock. I rebooted my phone before lunch and I used the dock twice after and it was still working. On my way back from lunch I noticed the sensors had stopped working at some point after that.

Anyone have ideas on this?
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Any solution?
Have you found any solution? My at&t s7 started having this same problem. All the sensors just stop working and I have to reboot my phone for a temp fix. I have also noticed it gets hot around the same time it happens. Does your phone become noticeably hot?

Nope. Haven't found a solution. I haven't noticed my phone getting hot either though.