I saw some very strange behavior from my Verizon Galaxy S5 (running OptimalROM) this morning. I was watching a video at my computer with the phone (screen off) sitting on my thigh, when I start hearing something about once a second -- I pause the video, and figure out it is my phone -- I pick up my phone and discover the noise is actually the phone vibrating. It is vibrating for a full second, then nothing for a second, then it vibrates again for a full second, and this kept repeating. I turned the screen on, thinking there was an incoming call or an emergency alert, or something, but there's no phone call and no notifications of any sort. After the vibrating continued for about a minute, I finally decided to reboot the phone to see if that would stop it -- which it did, and it has yet to reoccur.
I've never seen this behavior from any Android phone, so I thought I would ask the community if they've seen it and know why it was doing it.
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Hi all
My Wizard has been acting very strangely for the last 24 hours. Without any obvious trigger evet, it has started doing the followig things:
- GSM notification light has started blinking amber without any associated problem or warning. Normally this means GSM disabled, but I can still place and receive calls fine.
- Refusal to sync with desktop. When I plug it in, both the computer and phone make studdery 'hardware connected' noises but nothing else. Whatever I try, I cannot coaxe them to talk.
- Worst of all, at seemingly random times, in perhaps 1-minute intervals, the phone vibrates briefly and makes the notification noise, as if an appointment was coming up. But there are no appointments, all system alarms have been turned off and I can't for the life of me tell what's triggering it - there's nothing in the task manager list, so it seems to be a system fault. This is making it an extremely annoying device to be around.
I tried a soft reset, nothing. I'm reluctant to do a hard reset beacuse I have some data which I mustn't lose (but I can't back it up). The only thing that I can think of is an application I installed a while back SMS Threader, which was pretty parasitic. I removed it, but apparently the uninstallation wasn't clean. The buzzes and noises sound a bit like what the phone would do when I received a message while I had SMS Threader installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks...
This has happened a few times, I get a call, my ringer goes off but the screen is stuck in sleep and doesnt switch on no matter what I do, in the process I miss the call.
Just wondering if anyone else has had trouble bringing phone out of sleep, not necessarily when ringing, but it has also happened at other times, I have to press menu 4-5 times before I get a response sometimes.
I have a situation where my phone has more or less dropped a call and when it does the bottom of the keypad is not visible. And the bad part is that nothing short of a reboot will bring it back. To compound the issue it has also locked up the phone of the person I was speaking to at the time. I could not actually hang up on my end which kept their device on the call until such time as I rebooted my phone.
Anyone had this happen?
If the phone is in my pocket when a call comes in, apparently the screen comes on, and then it's hard to get the phone out of my pocket without either answering of rejecting the call. Usually, the call is rejected by the time I get the phone out of my pocket, though yesterday I accepted a call while retrieving the phone too.
Is something wrong with my phone? I never had this problem with other devices.
It could be that the screen shouldn't be coming on in my pocket, but it could also be that the accept/reject buttons shouldn't be displayed while the phone is pocketed. Either one would work.
Sometimes the phone rings and rejects before I can even react to it, so I don't think I'm hitting the power button, for example.
Okay, found a post elsewhere about turning off single tap in accessibility settings. We'll see how that works.
I use my phone a ton for calls , imagine that .
Lately when I put a call on speaker, the screen will not turn off. It will not time out and even if I press the power button to shut the screen off manually, it just comes right back on.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so have you been able to correct it?
p.s. this has only been happening in the past week or so and I can't think of anything I did or any updates that would have caused this.
Thanks
I'm experiencing this same thing. Tried multiple things and even did a hard reset and the issue still persists. Very annoying.
I found a workaround where if I come out of the phone app, then I can lock the screen.
got the same thing. i read something on AC( think it was) regarding the calendar notifications not allowing the screen to go dark too. i wake up, my phone is super hot if i have an all day appt with a notification. did yall find a fix to this? the other forum mentioned possible connection to samsung pay.
Having the same issue. The screen does not turn off when holding the phone to my ear or when I'm using bluetooth headset.