Just wondering if anybody else has this issue.
For some reason, when I set Auto Rotation to OFF (I.E. quick settings tile says "Portrait"), my Z will still auto rotate as normal in any app that usually does.
EDIT: It has started working now for me, after rebooting a few times, but I didn't really do anything special :\
EDIT2: It is random and recurring. However I "calibrated" accelerometer yesterday (26th November) by spinning the phone around a few times on all three axis, so far so good *fingers crossed*
Only apps like E.g. MX Player which have their own internal rotation lock ever work. Other apps like Chrome and Tapatalk and so on will still just ignore the setting and rotate automatically.
Does anybody else experience this on the stock Lollipop ROM? I have it in stock and also now in kamarush's 5.1.1 AOSP build. Possible hardware issue? I don't see how, though, that doesn't make sense!
Thanks in advance.
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Having the same problem on my XZ1, it's a shi*** bug .. very very annoying bug .
Well mine has started working randomly, now, after rebooting a few times.
Very strange, I had this bug for a LONG time on stock ROM (but now I'm on a custom AOSP build).
At least I am not the only one who had the same issue, I thought I was going crazy
Only real thing I did was toggle the Auto Rotate setting under Settings > Accessibility (not Display) a few times, didn't solve it but I have rebooted since. Maybe it's just a broken Setting that needs to be switched off > reboot > switch on > reboot > repeat this process until it starts working?
Started happening again. I played with Auto Rotate toggle a few times, now it's the opposite - no matter the setting it will NOT rotate!
I think this issue is specific to kamarush's AOSP build, though. Stock didn't do this.
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I have the opposite problem. Phones set to auto rotate but won't rotate.
jmindset said:
I have the opposite problem. Phones set to auto rotate but won't rotate.
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Yeah, mine sometimes does either way. Right now though, it's working perfectly.
What I did was "calibrate" my accelerometer. This is simply done by rotating the phone on all three axis several times (x, y, z) I.E. rotate the phone several times in all three directions. This might have solved it for me, or could be a coincidence.
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CosmicDan said:
Yeah, mine sometimes does either way. Right now though, it's working perfectly.
What I did was "calibrate" my accelerometer. This is simply done by rotating the phone on all three axis several times (x, y, z) I.E. rotate the phone several times in all three directions. This might have solved it for me, or could be a coincidence.
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Yeah its not always just randomly. Especially when I'm watching YouTube. Thanks for the tip though. I shall give it a try
Yep was random for me too, but so far so good after I spun my phone around on all axis. Fingers crossed. Never had to do this before, though, so it's pretty weird!
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Playing around with Android Sensor Box I noticed that the accelerometer on my device needs calibration. Right now, laid on a flat horizontal surface, it looks like it's tilted a little to the left. The problem is I can't find the option to calibrate on Jelly Bean. On my old Gingerbread phone I could do it from Settings > Display > Horizontal calibration.
Is there any way to do a system-wide calibration of the accelerometer?
OK for anyone having this problem: I turned the tablet off, laid it horizontally and turned it on again, which seems to recalibrate the accelerometer. Rather inconvenient, but it works.
Try the sensor tester app from the play store.
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zamuz27 said:
OK for anyone having this problem: I turned the tablet off, laid it horizontally and turned it on again, which seems to recalibrate the accelerometer. Rather inconvenient, but it works.
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I have just tested that and it does not work for me.
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Try the sensor tester app from the play store.
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well, it seems that this also does works only sometimes - at first it solved my problem, but after few days and reboots (there was also a ROM change involved), it stopped working for me (well, the calibration seems to works well, but other apps sees only miscalibrated results now... Looks like I will have to have my Nexus replaced (which I realy hate) :crying:
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I have just tested that and it does not work for me.
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For what it's worth, I've always been on stock Jelly Bean. When I first had issues with the accelerometer, powering off/on to recalibrate worked for me on 4.1.2, and I haven't had issues since, even after upgrading to 4.2 and doing a factory reset. Maybe you could give the latest stock ROM a try before replacing your Nexus 7.
I've visited the other threads but some of the circumstances seem unique to the person having the problem.
I myself was using my tablet as normal, coming out of a match in Modern Combat 4, and all of a sudden when going into the Sims Freeplay and I couldn't control any of my sims, for some reason they would all just stumble in place as if I had flipped the screen, I guess as a funny way of simulating me shaking their world around.
I thought it was a glitch in the game and so force closed and tried it again and still they messed around like I was flipping the screen around; after this I went back into Modern Combat 4 thinking that if there was an issue with the gyroscope it should reflect in the game too during a match but I'm able to use the gyroscope to freely aim and look in all directions and the same thing happened with Sonic 4 pt1 with tilting the screen to move around in the special stages.
My Nexus 7 is rooted with it's bootloader unlocked and I don't mind unrooting if need be to send it in since I'm still under Asus's warranty, but in the meantime I have Ultimate Rotation Control installed to force my tablet into either portrait or landscape, but I'd rather not have to rely on the app to do this, that and it causes a problem with The Sims Freeplay since I can't play it with it as I normally would before this problem.
I guess what I'm asking is what options do I have on trying to restore my tablets natural rotation? I've tried wiping the system and restoring backup data and that didn't work at all.
Make sure auto-rotation is enabled and temporarily disable your rotation app.
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Make sure auto-rotation is enabled and temporarily disable your rotation app.
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I made sure long before I resorted to using the app to force rotation, nothing changed.
I tried a few random compass apps and none of them seem to work (the needle does not point to a fixed direction as I walked around). I tried this with and without wifi/data/location. Can anyone confirm this?
I really like everything else about the phone and I would hate to RMA this just because of the compass.
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I tried a few random compass apps and none of them seem to work (the needle does not point to a fixed direction as I walked around). I tried this with and without wifi/data/location. Can anyone confirm this?
I really like everything else about the phone and I would hate to RMA this just because of the compass.
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I also have troubles with the compass. Tried calibrating it a few times, as per the guidelines Google give out. However it just doesn't seem to want to stick!
Anyone else confirm the issue?
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I'm also having issues with the compass. Doesn't work as a compass should. Turning around 180dg the phone makes north 180dg from where it was before.
copong said:
I'm also having issues with the compass. Doesn't work as a compass should. Turning around 180dg the phone makes north 180dg from where it was before.
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I still haven't been able to solve this, not sure if it's a software or hardware issue?
I've just managed to fix it, it was a calibration issue but I fixed it with a different calibration routine as the one in google maps did nothing.
Installed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brothers.compass
Then press the menu button at the bottom right. That goes straight into calibration mode with instructions.
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I've just managed to fix it, it was a calibration issue but I fixed it with a different calibration routine as the one in google maps did nothing.
Installed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brothers.compass
Then press the menu button at the bottom right. That goes straight into calibration mode with instructions.
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I've managed to get it to work for a while, but the calibration won't stick after reboot.
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Damn, same here. Anyone else?
No issues here.
There is a discussion on Google's forum at https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/nexus/SK7gbrV5MhU/X4OdqoheBQAJ. Seems the 5X is also having the same issue. Post your problem there to hopefully help get it sorted out quicker.
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After I finally got the November security update tonight, some of my Play store apps needed updating too. (I'll get to the point in a minute, I promise) One of those apps was Google Maps. I opened it & tapped on the location icon (so the image will turn as I do) & a pop-up came up stating that my compass was not correct & to turn it in several directions in succession to fix it. It may pop up for you too.
If you do not see that, do this: It asks you to hold your phone upright screen facing you (while in Maps) & fan it towards you then away, towards you then away. Then turn it in the air like the 4H queen wave, just twisting your wrist. Then while still facing you, rotate it to the left & right, like you're going to bang the sides of the phone on a table. Do each motion 4 times.
After doing that, the compass is dead on! Unfortunately, it doesn't hold the calibration after shutting the screen off though & backing out of Maps but it's a start without installing an app to do the same thing.
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Damn, same here. Anyone else?
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Yep me too. Thank god for XDA. I was thinking I was the only one with no compass (although a 5 minute drive showed navigation works fine). It isn't a deal breaker for me because...
Nearly everything else is just good on the money, great display but not natural white (bit like the old AMOLEDs from the Note 2 that I have) with no pink or yellow hues, great sound (except in calls, loudspeaker only uses bottom to play out the audio), superb fast and crisp camera especially the FFC (but bad stabilisation in videos), beautiful design esp in the frost finish, phenomenal imprint scanner, very good battery life seeing as I'm coming from the venerable Z3 (but it can vary wildly, rogue apps perhaps), excellent build quality as mine doesn't have any QC nicks or rattling noises (apart from the camera lens, which is par for the course), bluetooth works without cutting off via 'cupping', Maps is locked at 60fps for the first time in Android history (and uniquely on this Nexus only), charging is quick and I'm glad it is type C (very convenient).
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My few months old Moto G5 Plus phone has developed strange behaviour today, if Auto Rotate is set to ON then the phone when launching all applications which support landscape mode will rotate everything to this mode even when the phone is held upright.
I can fix it by turning Auto Rotate OFF. Does this indicate a fault with the hardware? I tried a couple of reboots but it seems not to fix it. I'd rather not factory reset the phone if possible.
I installed a program called "bubble level" from the app store and my phone shows the position all hard over to the right hand side. Moving the phone does not appear to change anything. In the app its self I can calibrate it and its all fine, it re-centres and works fine in that application. The problem is this doesn't fix it for the phone, just for that one application. I then still have all applications in landscape as the phone thinks its tilted over, when it isn't
Also tried safe mode as advised, same issue persists yet of course I can not launch bubble level.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
stormyuk said:
Hi,
My few months old Moto G5 Plus phone has developed strange behaviour today, if Auto Rotate is set to ON then the phone when launching all applications which support landscape mode will rotate everything to this mode even when the phone is held upright.
I can fix it by turning Auto Rotate OFF. Does this indicate a fault with the hardware? I tried a couple of reboots but it seems not to fix it. I'd rather not factory reset the phone if possible.
I installed a program called "bubble level" from the app store and my phone shows the position all hard over to the right hand side. Moving the phone does not appear to change anything. In the app its self I can calibrate it and its all fine, it re-centres and works fine in that application. The problem is this doesn't fix it for the phone, just for that one application. I then still have all applications in landscape as the phone thinks its tilted over, when it isn't
Also tried safe mode as advised, same issue persists yet of course I can not launch bubble level.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Go to device help app, Fix, hardware test, and test the gravity sensor. See if the hardware is functional.
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I don't see to have such an option on the Moto G5 Plus. As I say I have used "bubble level" app and is shows as the screenshot everything over to the right.
If I use the "set" function in that app, it works, it centres and the accelerometer works great, but ONLY in that app, so I am not sure what the issue is, the hardware seems to work, but default has a massive offset. I don't see a way to remove this massive offset.
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I don't see to have such an option on the Moto G5 Plus. As I say I have used "bubble level" app and is shows as the screenshot everything over to the right.
If I use the "set" function in that app, it works, it centres and the accelerometer works great, but ONLY in that app, so I am not sure what the issue is, the hardware seems to work, but default has a massive offset. I don't see a way to remove this massive offset.
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You don't have the 'Device help' app in your phone? What version of g5plus you have, which region? It would be strange not to have it.
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Ahh ok, yes I do have this App, it for some reason is "not visible" but will come up as a search.
I will check it out. Thanks
Ok, so the only one which seems relevant is "gravity sensor" but these tests don't seem to tell me a great deal, yes the stuff axis move around with the gravity sensor but no idea if its working correctly. X and Z figures seem too high when its on a flat surface to me. But the letter of the test says "do they move?", yes they do. I think I know the sensor is working, its just not "centred" so it has it appears to have a massive offset by default.
This massive offset by default appeared like 2 days ago, as per the attached screenshot in the OP.
Thanks for trying anyway.
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Ahh ok, yes I do have this App, it for some reason is "not visible" but will come up as a search.
I will check it out. Thanks
Ok, so the only one which seems relevant is "gravity sensor" but these tests don't seem to tell me a great deal, yes the stuff axis move around with the gravity sensor but no idea if its working correctly. X and Z figures seem too high when its on a flat surface to me. But the letter of the test says "do they move?", yes they do. I think I know the sensor is working, its just not "centred" so it has it appears to have a massive offset by default.
This massive offset by default appeared like 2 days ago, as per the attached screenshot in the OP.
Thanks for trying anyway.
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This is what it should look like in a flat surface. And the values should change based on the orientation of the phone. If it's not you should probably contact customer support.
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suhridkhan said:
This is what it should look like in a flat surface. And the values should change based on the orientation of the phone. If it's not you should probably contact customer support.
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Yeh, thanks for that, my top line was way out (full like your bottom line), its as though the accelerometer had a massive offset in that axis set somehow and I cannot reset it. If I was to use bubble level it would work fine but only in that application.
On advice of the Moto people I did a factory reset at the weekend (which I didn't really want to do) but it is working again. Very, very bizarre. I have put all my apps back on and its all normal. I have no idea what caused this or how to fix it short of doing a Factory reset.
It now looks similar to yours although my top two lines are pretty much identical in the middle and the bottom line full.
Thanks for the help.
I thought it might be a sensitivity issue because I'm coming from a N6 where I barely touch the screen and it registers. I did some testing and turned on show visual feedback for taps in developer options and I started tapping on the screen in random places every 2 seconds and on average every 5th tap it didn't register and sometimes it's the second and I had issues sometimes where 3-4 taps in a row in different places wouldn't register. For me it's not isolated to certain parts of the screen like many people have found, for example only on edges.
My sample size isn't very much but I've figured out that the majority (or only UI elements because I haven't tested enough) tapping on or around UI elements such as toggle settings in the developer options, any app (swiping/scrolling in apps too) that this issue occurs. When I moved an app icon to create a new screen and started testing I never had any registration issues(visual feedback for taps and long pressing to bring up the wallpapers/widgets/home settings intermittently between taps)
So is this a hardware issue, software UI or maybe a mix of both? I don't know enough about touch screens and android. I don't want to RMA if it's software but I do if it's a hardware issue. Does anyone have any insight on this?
So I did a factory reset and it's working perfectly now. I don't know what was causing it but it's good to know it wasn't hardware
I have the same issue, fingers crossed the upcoming update will fix this.. Mostly its a software issue (or hoping so), but I've seen few complaining about this..
I have the same issue. Its most likely a software issue that can be addressed through an update.
Mine seems to come and go. Sometimes it's fine; sometimes I'm having the same issues you're describing.
I was thinking last night it seemed like every once in a while a double tap is required, after idling for a few seconds. This to me sounds like a driver issue that could be fixed.
Today however I'm thinking it might have something to do with cold dry fingers, as I was having it outside but it's totally fine now indoors.
Can't really put my finger on it yet. Gonna give it a few more days before I think about an RMA.
Any of you guys using SwiftKey beta?
edit: are you on 8.0 or the 8.1 preview?
Just got my xl today and I have this issue. It's just randomly around the screen and not in any specific area.
I believe my phone is not recognizing vertical sliding if it is diagonal, versus the same diagonal slide on my 6p is recognized. Not sure why this is happening but I believe it is intentionally being done because if I touch same spot and closer to vertical up and down, it recognizes it.
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Any of you guys using SwiftKey beta?
edit: are you on 8.0 or the 8.1 preview?
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I am using swiftkey Beta on 8.0 and all functioning great
I don't know if this is related but I've been using accubattery and after I did a factory reset I didn't install it at first and everything was working great then I installed it and after awhile I noticed the issue come up again. I uninstalled it about an hour ago and did testing and the issue is gone.
I'm on 8.0
Issues came back even with accubattery uninstalled
I have the same problem. When trying to scroll a web page in Chrome, I have to touch twice to get the touch to register. Also having trouble with the long presses.
I'm on 8.0
I have Swiftkey (not beta)
I do not have Accubattery
I'm having major issues with this all of the sudden today. Something isn't right. Ugh - one issue after another.
I made a video of my issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnE_Cv-s20
Sometimes, when trying to scroll a web page in Chrome beta, I have to touch twice to get the touch to register. Saw this on 8.0 and now on 8.1.
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I made a video of my issues:
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That's horrible. I opened my gboard in chrome and it doesn't do that for me but it will do that swiping/scrolling, randomly typing and with GUI elements sometimes. Multiple times in a row to where i have to just stop tapping and wait a second or two and tap again.
I'm going to try using the 8.1 dev preview to see what happens
I'm having this issue too
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dekciw said:
That's horrible. I opened my gboard in chrome and it doesn't do that for me but it will do that swiping/scrolling, randomly typing and with GUI elements sometimes. Multiple times in a row to where i have to just stop tapping and wait a second or two and tap again.
I'm going to try using the 8.1 dev preview to see what happens
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I get the same thing while typing, i'll think i tapped something (because I know i did) but it won't register. Extremely annoying and all 3 phones I've gone through had the same issue, getting tired of RMAing
I mainly get this problem with gboard and the home button. It will double click a lot when I only touch once
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I'm also seeing this randomly as well! This is my biggest bug right now...
I installed the 8.1 dev preview and right off the bat it's working perfectly but let's see what happens in the next few hours. I don't understand why it's fine then all of a sudden not. It's completely ridiculous
Make sure you guys are enabling "show taps" under input in the developer options because when you tap and the visual feedback doesn't show then it's not registering. Enabling "pointer location" helps make it more obvious also
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I installed the 8.1 dev preview and right off the bat it's working perfectly but let's see what happens in the next few hours. I don't understand why it's fine then all of a sudden not. It's completely ridiculous
Make sure you guys are enabling "show taps" under input in the developer options because when you tap and the visual feedback doesn't show then it's not registering. Enabling "pointer location" helps make it more obvious also
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I'm on 8.1 still having these issues
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