hey community, i am having problem with proximity sensor. Whenever i receive a call on whatsapp or even regular call, the screen goes black and i have to move my hand on the proximity sensor to get it working again then it goes back to being black. It only goes black during he calls. i have tried reflashing the ROM but the issue is still there. Will i need o pull log? any help would be appreciated.
P.S. oh i have Moto g4 plus running lineage OS unofficial latest update. i didnt have this issue before!
sublimeace said:
hey community, i am having problem with proximity sensor. Whenever i receive a call on whatsapp or even regular call, the screen goes black and i have to move my hand on the proximity sensor to get it working again then it goes back to being black. It only goes black during he calls. i have tried reflashing the ROM but the issue is still there. Will i need o pull log? any help would be appreciated.
P.S. oh i have Moto g4 plus running lineage OS unofficial latest update. i didnt have this issue before!
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That's what the proximity sensor is for - to switch off the screen based on interactions. It goes off so that your face doesn't accidentally touch any button and cause problems. It's normal behaviour.
Yes bro ik that but the screen should go black when the sensor is covered with the face or hand. But it goes black as soon as my phone starts ringing. I need to cover the sensor to bring the screen back up so that I could answer the call. Similarly, as soon as I start listening to a voice note received on WhatsApp the screen goes black and the volume goes low I don't know what to do I have tried flashing stock ROM then latest lineage OS unofficial latest build, any help would be appreciated
sublimeace said:
Yes bro ik that but the screen should go black when the sensor is covered with the face or hand. But it goes black as soon as my phone starts ringing. I need to cover the sensor to bring the screen back up so that I could answer the call. Similarly, as soon as I start listening to a voice note received on WhatsApp the screen goes black and the volume goes low I don't know what to do I have tried flashing stock ROM then latest lineage OS unofficial latest build, any help would be appreciated
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Well, a complete wipe (Dalvik,Cache,System, Data) should ideally fix such things. But if doesn't, I think your sensor is damaged. Just take it to a service centre then
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Well, a complete wipe (Dalvik,Cache,System, Data) should ideally fix such things. But if doesn't, I think your sensor is damaged. Just take it to a service centre then
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Sigh, I thought so man, I was hoping it was not the case. Turning the sensor off will fix the issue but no xposed for N yet. I'll keep using this one seeing it's fine usually lol. Thanks for your help mate.
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Hey,
I'm having a problem with my proximity sensor. If I make a phone call, the screen turns automatically black, even if sensor isn't covered. And I can't turn the screen back on during call, only if the conversational partner hangs up, then it turns back on normally. If I try to hang up, the phone the display stays black for about 2min.
I'm having this problem only with WP7 & Android, works normally on WM6.5.
Hope somebody can help me.
Thanks in advantage.
You saying it works fine with winmo, it has to be a setting or bad flashing. You can try wiping your phone and starting over. I haven't played with WP7, but in some andriod roms there is an opition to use proximity sensor in the phone settings. Goto settings/ call settings. You might want to check and see. might be able to help you more if you were to tell what rom and how you installed.
This setting montecarlo5 mentions is available in cyanogenmod roms.
Are you sure there's no dirt covering your proximity sensor? Maybe Android is more sensitive than WM/WP.
I'm using RAFDROID HD 2.3 and like u allready said, the setting isn't available.
I'm having this issue on every NAND build i ever tested, but the sensor is 100% clean.
Please guys, don't open everytime a new thread before searching, if some one did the same -.- I made some tests to find out the reason of this issue and how to solve it (more or less).
Pls follow: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913134
When I make a phone call screen goes black without taking the phone near my ear and it doesnt recover and it remains black.... While the screen is black i can hear the person who am calling to...
Yep. I had the same issue after installing the Cyanogen Mod 7.1 ROM. There is an option to recalibrate the Proximity sensor. After doing that the problem got fixed for me. So might want to try this out.
It was under Open App Drawer--> ZTE BLADE settings--> Proximity Sensor Calibration.
Hi,
I have Xperia arc S. Recently it is behaving in a crazy way during a phone call.
when I call or I receive a call, and put the phone on my ear, the sensor works and get the display off which is normal... but what is not normal, is that many times the screen keeps off and It doesn't get back on.
It's more happening when I am outdoor.... and in many times I need to remove the battery to get it working again.
does any one face the same behavior? any suggestions?
Thanks alot,
I used to have the same problem. It's normally one of two things, either the sensor is obscured(eg some cases, or it's greasy) or low ram. If it's the sensor then it would be pretty obvious, with the ram issue then you can try a ram cleaner from the market, or a ram management app/script, or a custom rom(these all need a rooted phone, with a custom rom/kernel you'll probably need your bootloader unlocked).
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a_k_gano said:
Hi,
I have Xperia arc S. Recently it is behaving in a crazy way during a phone call.
when I call or I receive a call, and put the phone on my ear, the sensor works and get the display off which is normal... but what is not normal, is that many times the screen keeps off and It doesn't get back on.
It's more happening when I am outdoor.... and in many times I need to remove the battery to get it working again.
does any one face the same behavior? any suggestions?
Thanks alot,
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I have the same problem. I haven't found a solution, but in my case the screen will return when the call ends. I found an option in the phone to use the power button to end a call. That allows me to end a call when the screen won't activate. I can then push the middle button and the screen comes on.
I have investigated the sensor suggestion, but I don't think that is it. The screen will work perfectly in normal light conditions, but has problems in either low light conditions or outside when it is very bright. I don't think the latter case would be an issue if it was due to a blocked sensor. It is more like the software not being able to distinguish a change in light level either due to insufficient light or being overloaded by too much light. I had hoped 4.0 would fix it, but it hasn't.
Are you on a Custom ROM?
Or tweaked the autobrightness with a tool?
I only had this issue when i was on a Custom ROM that had bugs...
So if its official ROM, try wiping it...
Otherwise it could be just a bug of your rom, and you need to get an update if available
I think its a bug on stock ICS 4.0.4 because I had this problem too and only pulling out a battery would fix this. This happened to me only on pure stock unmodified ICS.
try another Rom, i guess it is your rom's bug
Hello, I have a problem with my LG G2 VS980 by verizon.
There are two problems depending on preloaded rom
1 The display shuts down immediately when call to someone. (after the conversation has will not turn on)
or
2 When someone call to me, after a conversation I can not unlock the screen (either the knock on, or by power button - appears on the screen and immediately turns off).
I've tested all the roms that are available. The one who runs without problem with the display there is a rom by HeatshiverSX - 4.3.1. The problem is that this rom has problem with the rotation of the screen.
Are you able to tell what's going on? Could someone help / advise? Thanks!
Anyone ?
LG G2 proximity sensor causes screen and touch problems during conversations
vivatbg said:
There are two problems depending on preloaded rom
1 The display shuts down immediately when call to someone. (after the conversation has will not turn on)
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2 When someone call to me, after a conversation I can not unlock the screen (either the knock on, or by power button - appears on the screen and immediately turns off).
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Did you manage to solve it by now?
If not, it seems that @Bam9 manged to solve it by a firmware update as he reported here.
It seems that there are two similar issues in LG G2 which are both caused by the proximity sensor which causes screen and touch problems during conversations:
The screen stays on and the touch buttons in the dialer (speaker, add call, mute, etc...) aren't responsive.
(This issue was already reported by @athorax here)
The screen turn off and goes blank while in conversation.
(This issue was already reported by @madafis here)
In both of these situations the only quick way to end a call is to pull down the status and notifications bar and hang up from there.
Thanks to @Bam9 and @EtherBoo , who suggested to clear the proximity sensor from the outside and squeeze the top left corner of the phone, I tried to clean it and put some stress on it - and it worked!
I have a glass screen protector (which don't block the proximity sensor), and I am rooted and using CyanogenMod 11 ROM.
I used ioroot to root and AutoRec, which comes with TWRP 2.7.0.0, to install CyanogenMod ROM.
However, going back to stock ROM (in my case, LG G2 D802, it's D80220C) won't help since the issue still exists.
What I'm sure is that it was pretty much okay in the beginning, and the situation became worse and worse - occurring randomly, until it arrived to a situation in which I can't use the phone properly during conversation.
Now that I discovered that I can put some stress on the proximity sensor it seems that I have a hardware rather than a software issue.
Hello,
I have the i9505 and i have flashed it with [ROM]【4.4.4】Google Play Edition 07-17-2014 - Pure Nexus Edition build now available by @Danvdh and i absolutely love this ROM and works like a charm but there is one thing i am having issue with and i cannot say its a bug as looked over his thread but no one has mention it. i can comment or post in the developer thread due to the number of posts i have, however i come here to ask for help.
When I make a phone call, my screen goes completely black and when i try wake the screen up, it would take multiple times and sometimes i have to take the battery out. The call somehow runs in the background, so if i managed to wake the phone, i have to pull the notification down fast to hang up and this is pain in the neck.
I suspected it could be the proximity sensor in my phone, i have no cover or screen protector, i cleaned the screen and still the same. so i ran few tests to check the sensor. phone detects the sensor but it doesn't do anything.
Thank you in advance
after many research, i have found the issue and its fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2569141
you will need to reset the proximity sensor depending on the values. i can say all working now