Coming from an S3, I was looking forward to Moto Display and hoping it would work flawlessly enough to compensate for the lack of a notification LED. Unfortunately, I'm not totally satisfied.
It looks to me like there are 3 IR sensors: top right, bottom right, and bottom left. The top right sensor seems to work as it should; waving my hand over that portion of the phone lights up the display about 90-95% of the time. However, the bottom sensors are worrying me. The faint red light is visible emitting from the bottom left sensor, but not the bottom right one (assuming both are IR sensors). Worse yet, even though light is visible from the bottom left sensor, waving my hand repeatedly over that area lights up the display only about 10% of the time.
In summary: waving over only the bottom portion of the phone fails to activate Moto Display well over 50% of the time. I have to target the upper right corner, and even then there are occasional misses.
Does this sound normal, or like a defective unit? What an annoyance -- I don't really want to return it just because of this, but Moto Display should not require effort to activate, in terms of targeting a specific corner of the phone (and having to wave multiple times on occasion).
I cannot satisfactorily answer your question, I just wanted to +1 your experience with my own. My Moto X Pure behaves the exact same as you describe above. Would also like additional confirmation as to whether this is "normal."
Mine works fine and both of the bottom ones faintly glow red.
Mine is the same as above, I can see all three emitters glowing.
AFAIK there are three emitters (one at the top and two at the bottom) and only one sensor (at the top) so if you're moving your hand over the bottom of the phone it would have to be further away or angled towards the top to bounce the IR to the sensor.
If you can only see two that might be an issue though.
KipperMinge said:
Mine is the same as above, I can see all three emitters glowing.
AFAIK there are three emitters (one at the top and two at the bottom) and only one sensor (at the top) so if you're moving your hand over the bottom of the phone it would have to be further away or angled towards the top to bounce the IR to the sensor.
If you can only see two that might be an issue though.
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THANK YOU -- this is accurate and very helpful. It had never occurred to me that the bottom two were simply emitters. Angling my hand up toward the top of the phone as I move it over the bottom area works at a much higher rate than before.
It does seem that my bottom-right emitter may be inactive, which might explain why I have a slightly tougher time activating MD reliably than I've seen in review videos. But knowing how to angle the hand has increased my success rate enough that I'm not going to worry about it.
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As a fresh owner I have a few questions:
1 - The lower right corner of the front panel wobbles (?), moves slightly on touch, I can press it for about 1mm (see the attached screen). It is especially annoying when pressing OK or dial off (or whatever the button is called). Is it normal?
2 - The screen has a slight green tone (hue), can anything be done with it?
3 - LCD has noticeable light leaking near the bottom side, again, is it normal? (Well, the screen does not work now anyway, gotta flash the phone.)
Thanks
Biges said:
As a fresh owner I have a few questions (too lazy to search):
1 - The upper right corner of the front panel is flimsy (?), moves slightly on touch. It is normal?
2 - The screen has a slight green tone (hue), can anything be done with it?
3 - LCD has noticable ligh leaking near the bottom side, again, is it normal? (Well, the screen does not work now anyway, gotta flash the phone.)
Thanks
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(1) I have no issues with this, seams fine on mine
(2) I cannot notice any hue, maybe you have a faulty unit given the blue colour and the movement of the panel.
(3) Yes LCD light is noticible, I also get leaks through the optical pad when I have the notification LED's on
1. I got some small loose on the front pannel upper area, it's especially felt when You hold the phone in one hand and work with Your thumb pressing the screen or just put the phone to You ear. You feel then the pannel moves a bit down. Maybe thats normal or just the build quality is not so good at all.
sounds like you have a faulty one. mine is solid as a rock. the loose screen and the green hue could be related. there shouldnt be any discolouration at all and i can only see it getting worse to be honest. where did you get it? if its somewhere reputable then id take it back and ask for a decent one while its still in warranty.
i do have tiny bit of light leakage near the buttons, that does seem common.
Mine is well made too, no hardware problems.
I have a silver one, solid as a rock, light leaks are present though...
You know the four LEDs that light up along with the keyboard LEDs at the bottom of our phone? It pisses me off that Samsung wired these guys in with the keyboard and literally made it impossible to disable them using software fixes. And I've set it to 3 seconds but that just doesn't cut it. I want them disabled, permanently, until I decide they should be turned back on. Well, I took it to the next level.
Cutting a piece of black electrical tape to just fit over the four, bottom buttons, I place it over the LEDs and BOOM, they were gone. My eyes will no longer tear up when I'm on my phone late at night while laying in bed. No longer will the screen be set to a healthy, dim brightness only to be overpowered the four LEDs at the bottom each time my finger touches the screen.
The capacitive feature still works fine, and I've lost no functionality with this fix. I'd post a picture but I'm having some issues with my digital camera.
Am I the only one who sees a pink color on the screen if the screen is tilted at an angle? I checked a floor model at Best Buy and didn't see any coloring.
If you take the device, rotate it so the corner with the clock is facing you and then corner with the Google voice search button is facing away from you and then tilt the device so you're looking at the screen in a sort of flat manner (but it happens much before it's flat) the screen turns pinkish. It also occurs when you do it from another rotation, same angle.
It sort of kills the quality of the screen since IPS is known for good viewing angles. It's a B6O, the floor model that didn't have it is a B7O.
No problems here with pink screen. Really though if you have to flip to that angle to see it what's the big deal? It's not an angle you would normally have the TF at to use.
I'm not the kind of person to whine about small things. Like I said in the first post it happens much before the tablet is laid flat. If I'm holding the tablet in a normal position and begin to turn it left or right the side of the screen that I'm turning it to turns pink. This is not a abnormal position for the tablet to be in. If I'm not directly in front of the screen it turns pink even if it's a little bit to the left or right.
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I'm not the kind of person to whine about small things. Like I said in the first post it happens much before the tablet is laid flat. If I'm holding the tablet in a normal position and begin to turn it left or right the side of the screen that I'm turning it to turns pink. This is not a abnormal position for the tablet to be in. If I'm not directly in front of the screen it turns pink even if it's a little bit to the left or right.
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Call asus support.. i would.
You're holding it wrong.
Couldn't resist
(It's probably just you, never noticed it)
Hello,
I received a LG G2 D802 and have a question regarding it('s build quality). I have no other D802 to compare it to, that's why I am asking here:
When tapping firmly with the finger on the upper right side of the device, I can hear some kind of "clattering" from inside the device. Now I am wondering:
Is this normal?
I had a look at some tear down pictures/videos of the LG G2 and it seems like the motor for the vibration feature is located in the upper right side of the device.
So, could it be the motor which produces this clattering sound when firmly tapping on the right side of the device with the finger?
It might be worth mentioning that, when shaking the device, I can not hear this clattering sound as much. It's much quieter when shaking the device.
It's basically only happening to this extend when firmly tapping the upper right side of the device with the finger.
Or could the clattering simply come from the optical image stabilization of the camera when shaking/tapping the device?
Also:
When firmly tapping the touchscreen, I can feel and hear a difference between tapping the right side of the touchscreen and tapping the left side of the touchscreen.
When firmly tapping the left side of the touchscreen, it feels very "stiff" / "hard". But I mean that in a good way, it feels very solid.
However, when firmly tapping the right side of the touchscreen it feels kinda like as if the area below the touchscreen would somehow be a little "hollow". I can also hear a difference when firmly tapping the touchscreen while holding it to my ear. When tapping the left side it sounds solid. But when tapping the right side it sounds a little "hollow", kinda like a audible resonance.
The glass and display does not seem to be visibly moving though and the device seems to be working just fine otherwise.
Is this normal?
PS: Tapping the left side of the rear (which corresponds to the right side of the front) of the device is similar and also produces this somehow "hollow" audible resonance.
Regards
All phones have rattles. The sound from upper parts is likely the cameras optic sensor, which is completely normal.
You will get used to it.
Hello,
After I received the latest update which enabled more options like gamma in display settings I've noticed while browsing that on a full screen white background the edges tends to drop somehow a gray shadow.
While I think this is kind of normal because of the edge curvature, looking straight in the center of the phone, the right shadow is somehow more pronounced than the left one.
If I move the phone a bit to the left or turn it few degrees to the left, the right shadow disappears while the left is starting to be pronounced.
Also when I look at the phone horizontal, with the usb connector on the right side, the bottom edge doesn't exhibit any pronounced shadow while the top can be seen. The top shadow is the previously right one.
If I turn it with the usb connector on the left, the bottom shadow is visible while is also the top one. Previously the bottom was not visible.
I was thinking maybe this is how the crystals are aligned like in a tn screen when looking from bellow the center screen the top starts to get darken, but from left to right not top to bottom on s8 plus.
I know it's not a tn screen but still, maybe this technology has a small drawback.
I went in 2 retail shops to check their displayed testing phones.
One of them had a smaller gray shadow on the right side than mine, but had a very faded red shadow on the left side. While the other seemed somehow equal on shadows, I couldn't figure it out better because of the blue neon lights in the store. The best can be seen at home during the night or in moderate day light. Anyway when I put my hands around the screen it seemed to have a bit more shadow on right side but less than mine, but no faded red on left side. Also I noticed that the white was different on all 3 of them, but this is not an issue.
Did someone else can also test this shadow behaviour if it is more pronounced on the right than on the left side and also if it's not visible at the bottom with the usb port at the right while is visible top and bottom with the usb connector on the left ?
Thanks