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Guys,
First off - Way to go Mods - its great to have a TyTN only forum at last!
Ok my problem is -
When i 'awake' my TyTN, the screen is sometimes in landscape mode, even though the device has teh keyboard shut and is being used in the portrait mode.
Is this a part of teh infamous alignment bug? And does anyone know of a fix?
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As far as I know, this seems to happen when the device is being used with the case. It seems that the magnet in the belt clip makes the phone go to landscape.
As far as I know, this seems to happen when the device is being used with the case. It seems that the magnet in the belt clip makes the phone go to landscape.
aaah....now that would make sense. it seems to have started when I used the case.
I like using a case. Are there any recommendations for adecent replacement?
Thanks for helping out fella!
Been using the case since got the phone.
Sometimes it does indeed be in landscape mode when I take
it out, but it always reset to portrait mode as soon as I get it out.
Happens to me too.
jeezus said:
Been using the case since got the phone.
Sometimes it does indeed be in landscape mode when I take
it out, but it always reset to portrait mode as soon as I get it out.
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Wondering if this is working for everyone? On my ALIE firmware the feature doesnt seem to function as described, i.e., my eyes/face rotating 45 degrees does not cause the screen to rotate at all.
keep the phone on a flat surface and rotate ur head it should work
press thanks if this helped
snakkarike said:
keep the phone on a flat surface and rotate ur head it should work
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i wish it was that simple. Just doesnt work.
What are you trying to do?
Smart rotate is just for 90 degrees. Imho, it is for people lying down.
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Smart rotate doesn't check if your head rotated or not at random times, it only checks your heads/eyes position when the phone is rotated 90° (in other words, whenever the phone is supposed to rotate, it does an extra check before doing so)
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Doesn't these face detection gimmicks like smart rotate and smart stay use gobs of battery power since the front camera is active e?
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could be that your face is too ugly or disfigured for the feature to recognize it. sorry
iwin2000 said:
could be that your face is too ugly or disfigured for the feature to recognize it. sorry
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LMAO hahahahaha. I shouldnt be laughing cause were not suppose to flame each other but I burst out laughing when I read this.
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Viper2005 said:
Doesn't these face detection gimmicks like smart rotate and smart stay use gobs of battery power since the front camera is active e?
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It only checks every now and then.
In fact, I bet it only checks when the phone is rotated.
Regardless, the amount of power used by a quick camera check is minimal compared to the power needed to light the screen.
- Frank
Can confirm on mine, that this is to stop the screen rotating when you yourself rotate with the phone, for example when lying down.
It would seem it only checks when the screen attempts to rotate (you see an eye icon in the notification bar briefly). I do believe that this actually causes a slight delay when you do want to rotate the screen as it will need to do the check first.
i believe it needs to have a good clean shot of your face in portrait mode first, then it can detect your 2 eyes turning to landscape and thus do a rotate.
I need this feature when in bed at night (for reading mostly) but it doesnt work in the dark so its totally useless for me.
Samsung should have put in a small low power Infrared LED (which is a light source cameras can see but humans only see a dim red light) - this would have made the feature work in all situations or at least work in most situations.
sonhy said:
i believe it needs to have a good clean shot of your face in portrait mode first, then it can detect your 2 eyes turning to landscape and thus do a rotate.
I need this feature when in bed at night (for reading mostly) but it doesnt work in the dark so its totally useless for me.
Samsung should have put in a small low power Infrared LED (which is a light source cameras can see but humans only see a dim red light) - this would have made the feature work in all situations or at least work in most situations.
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Check the phone in complete darkness .. there is a very feint red light emitted from the sensor area!
Mine would rotate normally whether I enabled or disabled the option. When I rotate the phone, the eye icon would appear on the notification bar. It takes about 1 to 3 seconds, and then it rotate no matter where I'm pointing the front camera to. It would even rotate in the dark.
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Check the phone in complete darkness .. there is a very feint red light emitted from the sensor area!
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Yeah, I've noticed that too.
Is it some kind of IR-light?
This feature is a hit and a miss.. really annoying when watching an youtube video.. even before enabling this feature samsung warned about lag or slow screen rotation... probably they might be working on this feature and might release an update fix soon...
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Anyone have any problems with this? Sometimes it will get stuck in landscape. I'll have to go from portrait back to landscape to get it to rotate back to portrait
To narrow it down if I lock the phone in landscape the unlock it via fingerprint sensor it happens
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it sometimes happens. And also another odd issue i noticed was then you are listening to music or watching videos in landscape and you rotate your phone 180 degrees upside down, the audio will stop for a split second and resumes. Is this a software flaw??
godlyitem said:
it sometimes happens. And also another odd issue i noticed was then you are listening to music or watching videos in landscape and you rotate your phone 180 degrees upside down, the audio will stop for a split second and resumes. Is this a software flaw??
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No. It's the dual speakers. When the screen rotates the audio swaps speakers.... Because there channeled to a left and right speaker
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Still feel like auto rotate is wonky. Like when I turn on the screen with finger print sensor its in landscape and has to rotate back..... Anyone???? Just seems different than owner phones I've had
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Still feel like auto rotate is wonky. Like when I turn on the screen with finger print sensor its in landscape and has to rotate back..... Anyone???? Just seems different than owner phones I've had
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Yes, I've noticed the same. I wonder if the bug has already been submitted.
I can also confirm that it has happened on mine as well. It happens sometimes when I wake the phone.
Yes... I've been having the same issue. Doesn't happen too often, but it is rather annoying. Seems if I just rotate the device about 3/4 of a turn it will go back to normal. I thought maybe it was a faulty accelerometer, but hopefully it's just a software bug that will be fixed sooner or later.
Same here. Does not want to come back to portrait, needs to go to landscape shake to go back to normal...
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My Nexus 6P will not go into reverse portrait orientation at all - only portrait, landscape, and reverse landscape. I have to use a third-party app to achieve reverse portrait orientation.
myownnamewasalreadytaken said:
My Nexus 6P will not go into reverse portrait orientation at all - only portrait, landscape, and reverse landscape. I have to use a third-party app to achieve reverse portrait orientation.
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I was able to fix this using GravityBox, in case anyone is interested.
myownnamewasalreadytaken said:
I was able to fix this using GravityBox, in case anyone is interested.
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Same problem here, how did you fix it with GravityBox, pls!
+1 for this issue. Sometimes, when I launch a game its stuck in potrait mode. Only way to fix it is to exit the game rotate the screen to Landscape and relaunch it.
xdaniel91: There's a setting under "Display tweaks" called "Allow all rotations." I just checked the box next to this setting. I might have had to reboot.
Cataclysm has a similar setting under "Miscellaneous" called "Upside-down rotation."
Hello guys, what worked for me yesterday, it was letting fall down the phone against the asphalt by accident when i was getting out from the car. LOL
Some other people suggested a strong shock/hit as a fix in a google nexus forum, i cant attach the link yet.
I've been following this issue closely as I was impacted by it as well.
Here's the link to the Nexus Help forum:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!topic/nexus/ytCwNnOJEaM;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/nexus$206p$20auto$20rotate
Here's a video I made of the issue:
https://youtu.be/TIF0QZkFIuQ?t=135
Lol sounds wrong but i did fix mine, i dropped my phone today from like 2cm high and my rotation stopped working...came to this thread and read your advice, dropped it again from like 1 cm height and my rotation started working again....so thanks!
"Hello guys, what worked for me yesterday, it was letting fall down the phone against the asphalt by accident when i was getting out from the car. LOL
Some other people suggested a strong shock/hit as a fix in a google nexus forum, i cant attach the link yet"
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Lol sounds wrong but i did fix mine, i dropped my phone today from like 2cm high and my rotation stopped working...came to this thread and read your advice, dropped it again from like 1 cm height and my rotation started working again....so thanks!
"Hello guys, what worked for me yesterday, it was letting fall down the phone against the asphalt by accident when i was getting out from the car. LOL
Some other people suggested a strong shock/hit as a fix in a google nexus forum, i cant attach the link yet"
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Holy crap, that worked. My phone fell about 6 inches onto hard tile. Then auto rotate stopped working. I just tapped the phone on different corners on the same hard tile, and it's rotating again.
chamsao said:
Holy crap, that worked. My phone fell about 6 inches onto hard tile. Then auto rotate stopped working. I just tapped the phone on different corners on the same hard tile, and it's rotating again.
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There's a tiny gyroscope chip on the main board. Contained inside it is a plate (critical mass) with contacts underneath that moves/slides on top of the chip's contacts. When you rotate the phone, the plate actually moves inside the tiny chip, and from there the x,y,z axis is calculated. In my best hillbilly mechanic voice "yer plate got stuck".
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There's a tiny gyroscope chip on the main board. Contained inside it is a plate (critical mass) with contacts underneath that moves/slides on top of the chip's contacts. When you rotate the phone, the plate actually moves inside the tiny chip, and from there the x,y,z axis is calculated. In my best hillbilly mechanic voice "yer plate got stuck".
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Mine has been getting stuck but dont think its the plate. Of course it began happening when I switched rom, flashed new bootloader, vendor AND started using a new launcher.
Fairly confident its not the launcher because no one else is complaining. Hitting/dropping the phone doesnt fix it but toggling auto rotate does. Ive tried every variation of set rotations in the settings of the rom and launcher but this has persisted over a week. Whats frustrating is itll go hours without the glitch (thinking its fixed) then it gets stuck in landscape.
Thats my boring story. If anyone has a fix please share. Thanks
I notice this while trying to put it on my desk or one hand typing texts, it seems the auto rotate sensitivity is too high. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there some way to "turn it down" so you can turn the phone more before it auto rotates? I know I can turn it off, but I use it in Chrome and YouTube and probably couple more apps.
Thanks!
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I notice this while trying to put it on my desk or one hand typing texts, it seems the auto rotate sensitivity is too high. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there some way to "turn it down" so you can turn the phone more before it auto rotates? I know I can turn it off, but I use it in Chrome and YouTube and probably couple more apps.
Thanks!
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No issues here with it , guess you could set to landscape / portrait manually , few apps can do it in the play store
italia0101 said:
No issues here with it , guess you could set to landscape / portrait manually , few apps can do it in the play store
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I've considered manually doing it, guess just being lazy. It just wants to rotate way too soon for me, it may be my posture or something causing it. Not a bad idea, maybe I can find a widget to easy swap manually.
I've noticed it too. Although I'll take that over too much lag in it rotating when I want
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No doubt about that!! For me it's right on the cusp of no issues. May just need to hold the phone slightly different to correct it.
I saw Xposed was released for 6.0. Does anyone know of anything for it that would allow this sort of adjustment?
InfiniteReality said:
I notice this while trying to put it on my desk or one hand typing texts, it seems the auto rotate sensitivity is too high. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there some way to "turn it down" so you can turn the phone more before it auto rotates? I know I can turn it off, but I use it in Chrome and YouTube and probably couple more apps.
Thanks!
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I thought Android 6.0.1 will solve it... But it didn't
Is this a hardware issue? I think not. Sensors data look fine. So I do think it is a software issue. Hoping Google will sort this out
Reported the issue to google
Hi guys,
I reported the issue to google
Please help by voting it up:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=196975
Yeah, I think so, too. I turned off autorotation. I found I like the experience better.
I too find it too sensitive. I used Tasker to limit the rotating on all except a few apps on my last phone but I haven't done it on this phone. You just made me think of it. I can't say yet that it will work. Worth a try.
I do not want to manually set the rotation every time I want to watch a video or a picture I just taken. This is silly.
The auto rotation works great on iphones & on previous Nexus devices. The experience is important.
If only there was an app that can bias the tilt sensitivity like there are apps for brightness sensitivity
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Hi guys,
I reported the issue to google
Please help by voting it up:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=196975
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Thanks for this, I added a comment in it and voted as well. I turn the screen rotation off when needed (like for Chrome use). Always forget to turn it back on till it rotates without wanting it too.
here is a quick video I did to illustrate the issue:
https://youtu.be/fJdwmbuUoHY
InfiniteReality said:
I notice this while trying to put it on my desk or one hand typing texts, it seems the auto rotate sensitivity is too high. Does anyone else have this issue? Is there some way to "turn it down" so you can turn the phone more before it auto rotates? I know I can turn it off, but I use it in Chrome and YouTube and probably couple more apps.
Thanks!
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I'm gonna start a thread in Help/Q&A and post a reddit article I found that solved the issue for me. Using the device with one hand it would always rotate when I reached for the far corner and was bugging the hell out of me... The solution involves Tasker.
Hey, guys. I'm a huge fan of this phone.. I can't get over what a good value it is for the money. I have almost zero issues with it. The one issue I do have is the inconsistency with tap to wake. It seems like after it has been in my pocket for a while, it just fails to work. This happens periodically throughout the day, to the point where I just can't rely on it. It drives me mad because that's kind of a must have feature for me. To be fair, the only device I have never had tap to wake issues with is LG phones. They just seem to work all the time.
I did raise the sensitivity following the guide found on these forums. It's something else, like the pocket protection is stuck on or something. Anyone else experience something similar? I don't want to use the fingerprint reader. Is there something I don't know? Some setting I'm not seeing? Or is this just how it is?
Still a great phone otherwise. I wish I could fix this one little thing.
Is your screen clean or dirty? Have you tried wiping it down with 70% isopropyl alcohol and seeing if that improves the responsiveness. Is the phone hot when it's not responding? Are your fingers dirty?
It's not very sensitive, you definitely need to give it a couple of thumps unlike the taps on an LG phone.
There's a learning curve with this phone. I nearly dislocated my shoulder trying to shake the flashlight awake before I realized you had to wake the screen first
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It's not very sensitive, you definitely need to give it a couple of thumps unlike the taps on an LG phone.
There's a learning curve with this phone. I nearly dislocated my shoulder trying to shake the flashlight awake before I realized you had to wake the screen first
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I mean, this only happens when I take it out of my pocket. Tap to wake works fine the rest of the time and my screen is definitely clean.
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I mean, this only happens when I take it out of my pocket. Tap to wake works fine the rest of the time and my screen is definitely clean.
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I'm coming from an lg phone as well, I have found the taps must be slower. The pause between taps needs to be just a little longer and it works for me almost every time.
Double tap to wake doesn't work when the phone has gone into doze mode. ZTE knows about this issue and is working on a fix.
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Double tap to wake doesn't work when the phone has gone into doze mode. ZTE knows about this issue and is working on a fix.
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That actually explains a lot. Thanks!
Doze seems to break a lot, including notifications on other phones.
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greyhulk said:
That actually explains a lot. Thanks!
Doze seems to break a lot, including notifications on other phones.
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The doze should not kick in if the phone is moving. One of the conditions is that phone should be static for a while. More likely it's something based on proximity sensor to prevent accidental turn ons. I found that i would have to tap several times to wake it up most time i have to do it twice. The force touch is buggy
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The doze should not kick in if the phone is moving. One of the conditions is that phone should be static for a while. More likely it's something based on proximity sensor to prevent accidental turn ons. I found that i would have to tap several times to wake it up most time i have to do it twice. The force touch is buggy
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Well, I haven't had any issues since I disabled doze and I doubt that's a coincidence.
I agree that doze shouldn't kick on in your pocket, which is why I originally suspected the proximity sensor, but it could be a bug in ZTE's ROM.
My Mate 8 had a malfunctioning doze mode that would cause all notifications to stop as soon as the screen went off, even if the phone was moving. I fixed that by disabling doze also.
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The same issue I'm having on both colors I'm having .
Most of the time when picking the device from my jeans pocket refuses to open with double tap even after several attempts.
I have to unlock by pressing with power button and then when holding my phone it stating to work fine.
It's really annoying and frustrating.
Only double tap to sleep with nova prime or 3D next launcher working 100% perfect in all situations from home screen.
Also I'm using glimpse notification and enable the option to double tap to sleep from lock screen and works perfect all time.
Another feature having is it wakes up the screen automatically every time having notification alert and after screen being off continuous the led to be on as a reminder.
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So, I was wrong. Disabling doze didn't fix it. I went back to my OnePlus 3 for a day to get perspective. That phone pretty much never misses a tap-to-wake. It just works. Conversely, the Axon regularly "goes to sleep" when it's in my pocket and I can tap on the screen as many times as I want and it will never come on until I hit the power button. It's definitely not working like it should, at least not for me.
I'm not sure how anyone can say that it's working fine. I like everything else about the phone. This is just annoying because I can't rely on using tap-to-wake. I spend more time tapping on the screen when it's not working than I would if it just didn't have the feature and I had to use other methods. If ZTE could fix this to work as reliably as an LG or the OnePlus 3, I'd be in heaven.
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So, I was wrong. Disabling doze didn't fix it. I went back to my OnePlus 3 for a day to get perspective. That phone pretty much never misses a tap-to-wake. It just works. Conversely, the Axon regularly "goes to sleep" when it's in my pocket and I can tap on the screen as many times as I want and it will never come on until I hit the power button. It's definitely not working like it should, at least not for me.
I'm not sure how anyone can say that it's working fine. I like everything else about the phone. This is just annoying because I can't rely on using tap-to-wake. I spend more time tapping on the screen when it's not working than I would if it just didn't have the feature and I had to use other methods. If ZTE could fix this to work as reliably as an LG or the OnePlus 3, I'd be in heaven.
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Totally agree.
Hope ZTE makes improvements on that very useful feature to become just like LG.
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