So today my phone started acting up, the screen has been staying lit forever when I receive an sms. A real battery burner. Any help or ideas would be appreciated!
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turn off the puzzle lock screen
that was actually the first thing i did and it seemed to still be doing it. Also powered it off and then started it back up. I also have a dimmer app, wondering if perhaps this had something to do with it. anyway i'll keep people posted. keep coming with advice pls.
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So, what is the lock button suppose to do in camera mode? It would make sense for it to prevent you from accidentally pressing one of the touch-sensitive buttons, but it also prevents you from touching the screen and taking a snapshot. I can see it being useful for camcorder mode but that feature isnt used as much as the camera.
Yea I know its useless for taking pictures. But I do actually use for a camcorder, I went to puyallup fair and went on a ride and was taking a video of my friend and to prevent from exidentaly stopping the recording I just lock the screen......there are a couple of things that are useless on the vibrant like it will not let you listens music/view videos, if your battery is below 15%... Just pisses Me off.
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vitalik228 said:
there are a couple of things that are useless on the vibrant like it will not let you listens music/view videos, if your battery is below 15%... Just pisses Me off.
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Oh, that pisses me off to!! I could shoot the guy who signed off on that "feature". So many times I wanted to take a picture but it wouldnt let me because of low battery. ITS MY PHONE, let ME be the one who decides how to drain what battery I have left.
Yeah,cosine that. If i want to run down my battery that should be the users decision.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
this happened to me the other day, while driving i was at a stop light and was going to take a pic of a ferrari next to me, but the damn camera got locked somehow, and i couldnt figure out how to unlock it, i ended up having to pull the battery....lol needless to say i missed the pic of the ferrari
Yep... I totally agree with that.
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Ok so I'm at week 3 with this thing and yesterday I noticed that my screen had a dead spot on it. What I mean by that is that there was an unresponsive section on the screen. I had experienced this before on my E4G. End result was sprint replaced the phone. By last night the spot responded again but a new location was affected by this problem.
Also the last few days I've had issues with the phone just "running away". I will get backed out of an app automaticlly then multiple selections are made as the phone flies through different screens on its own. While this is happening I do feel a haptic response to this phantom finger making all these selections. When I touch the screen myself there is no response to my touch. Screen shutdown stops the action and allows me to restart the phone after I get the screen back on.
Need to know if anyone else is or has experienced this. I've only got a few days left on my 30 for return without having to pay for another phone.
Also, I have not rooted this device or used any mods.
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Ok so I'm at week 3 with this thing and yesterday I noticed that my screen had a dead spot on it. What I mean by that is that there was an unresponsive section on the screen. I had experienced this before on my E4G. End result was sprint replaced the phone. By last night the spot responded again but a new location was affected by this problem.
Also the last few days I've had issues with the phone just "running away". I will get backed out of an app automaticlly then multiple selections are made as the phone flies through different screens on its own. While this is happening I do feel a haptic response to this phantom finger making all these selections. When I touch the screen myself there is no response to my touch. Screen shutdown stops the action and allows me to restart the phone after I get the screen back on.
Need to know if anyone else is or has experienced this. I've only got a few days left on my 30 for return without having to pay for another phone.
Also, I have not rooted this device or used any mods.
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I haven't had the issue where the phone is whipping through different screens on its own, but I have had a dead spot in one particular area a few times. It doesnt always happen, and I can't really force it to repeat. It is totally random when it happens, but it is that same spit every time it does happen. A factory reset seemed to help, but it still happens once in a while. When it happens, I change to a different screen, then go right.back to the screen with the 'dead spot' and it is no longer dead/unresponsive. Very odd.
I would try a factory reset, then of the problem persists I'd probably take it to Sprint. I have a couple days left and am pondering exchanging mine for a new one as well.
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Did you have anything plugged into the headset jack? Only time I've experienced a runaway phone going crazy was when I had mine plugged into an amp via the headphone jack. All sorts of crazy control signals go through there.
Mike
No sir, nothin plugged in
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my friend had this happen to her evo shift a couple times. It occured after she upgraded to gingerbread. I beleive she hard reset it and it went away
Anyone else getting this? Seems to be only the top half of the screen it does this randomly. Takes a reboot to fix it. I am rooted and no matter the ROM tgis happens 2-3 times a week
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Sounds like a problem. I would definitely bring the phone in to be checked out.
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Sounds like a problem. I would definitely bring the phone in to be checked out.
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Happened to me once with my first one, and twice with my second. Not enough times to really make me care.
i've experienced unresponsive issues
So i've experienced the screen randomly becoming unresponsive. So i know its lot locked because i've been in phone calls when it happened, or i can see animations working, or maybe a download bar progressing and then the screen will do nothing at all. I can shut the screen off and back on but then not be able to unlock it. But then i've had the same happen, but i would then be able to unlock the phone only for nothing beyond that to respond. This does eventually go away/stop, Its odd as it makes me think its the screen at times, then software at times (sometimes i cannot hold the power to restart/power down).
i have a similar problem where my lower part of the screen becomes unresponsive randomly at times once a day and then goes away after reboot . im not rooted
hey, i dont know if this is in the right section so if it isnt im sorry, also i am on o2 as i live in the UK but decided to put it in the Verizon section, sorry again
sometimes when i lock my phone and put it down onto my desk it unlocks itself and goes to the home screen, this is worrying because i have a pass lock on it...
i have made sure lock with home button is enabled and it is, motion sensors are off etc so i dont know
any ideas?
If this is what you're experiencing:
1. Phone is awake and screen is on
2. Press power button to turn off the screen and lock the phone
3. Put phone down on table/desk
4. Instantly the phone wakes up and goes straight to the homescreen
Then yep I am experiencing this exact same thing myself. It's not consistent at all, sometimes it goes a full day without happening, but it does happen. Seen it a dozen or so times so far and it's really frustrating. I have no idea what could possibly be causing this. It's almost like a bounce-back wake up where the phone isn't done doing something when I lock it and it goes "no I'm waking back up not finished yet." Because once it wakes up and I re-lock it, it hasn't done it again since. No back to back wake ups.
Wierd. Hopefully more people can post that they too experience this.
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If this is what you're experiencing:
1. Phone is awake and screen is on
2. Press power button to turn off the screen and lock the phone
3. Put phone down on table/desk
4. Instantly the phone wakes up and goes straight to the homescreen
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yeah thats exactly whats happening, like you say it is inconsistent but is annoying when it happens
This has never happened to me.
I haven't had this happen either. Can you turn off all motion settings and see if it still happens?
I can't definitively say I've had this happen, but there have been several times when I've woken the phone up and thought 'I swear I didn't hit the power button...'
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Happened to me twice today. Not sure what the cause is?
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This has happened to me quite a bit. I can go days without seeing it and then some days it happens until I power off the phone for 5 or 10 mins and then boot it back up, once I do that everythings hunkey dorey for at least a day if not more. Its a very odd bug though. Ive experienced it on all the stock and all the AOSP roms so it could just be a hardware issue of some sort. But then powering it off wouldnt help, at least I dont think so......
Anyway, its more annoying than anything but it has gotten me in trouble for dialing people and saying stuff they werent meant to hear, like my fiancée hearing what she was getting for Christmas.....
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its happened to me 4 times today , i just hope it doesnt happen that many times every day and thats pretty unlucky with your fiancee
Hey guys. I was using my phone to check email, browse facebook, normal stuff. When all of the sudden it emitted a high-pitch squeal and shut off. That was an hour ago. I've been unable to get it to come back on. If i pull the battery and reinsert, it'll show the Samsung logo before beginning and endless series of vibration pulses. It won't stop unless I pull the battery. I've tried getting into recovery, no luck. I tried putting it into Odin mode, but as soon as the Odin screen loaded, the phone went black and back into the vibration pulsing. I've tried pulling the SIM, memory card, new batteries, anything I can think of. I've got plenty of backups on my SD card, so wiping it isn't an issue if i could just get to a recovery screen.
Any ideas what the hell this is??
Bad battery.
Stuck power button.
Your power button may be stuck. Try flicking it with your finger.
Well, i tried booting it with only the wall power connected, no battery, but nothing. I tried flicking the power button to loosen it, but no joy there either. It feels like the power button is releasing itself like it should, doesn't feel stuck. I could possible spray a tiny bit of switch cleaner in there to loosen things up.
EDIT: What is a stuck power supply supposed to feel like? Mine feels like it's making a full movement. There's a solid click on a full press and a smaller click when releasing it. Feels like it's working. I'm tempted to just crack her open and get a better look. I'm on a replacement Blackberry while my note is down and this dumbphone is KILLING me! Gotta get the note back up and running.
The power button looks like this on the inside.
It's a tiny micro switch. Sometimes the tiny mechanics get stuck on the inside. When it's stuck, it constantly reboots. It's a very common problem and sometimes an easy fix.
Parts of your problem resemble a bad battery like capt mentioned. As well as the stuck power button symptom. You can take the phone apart and try to clean it. It's not hard to do. Spraying in the external button probably won't reach the actual button though. Sorry if our first two ideas aren't fixing your issue. Maybe someone else will come along with another idea.
I'm pretty sure we are correct.
It's the power button mine does that when it sticks high pitched noise then the black screen with vibrations
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It's the power button mine does that when it sticks high pitched noise then the black screen with vibrations
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This is EXACTLY what I experienced, noise and all. Sounds like I need to take my phone apart and examine that switch. Is it as easy as blowing compressed air (PC cleaner type) through it to clear it?
EDIT: Well, I gotta give it to you guys. You were spot on. I took the phone apart and really did nothing more than tap on the switch directly and it booted right up. I hit it with some canned air just to be safe and clean it all out. It's currently charging back up and looking fantastic at this point! Thank you guys so much. You've saved me from having to go any longer with a Blackberry!!
Glad to hear you're up and running again! This pesky power button issue has plagued many.
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This is EXACTLY what I experienced, noise and all. Sounds like I need to take my phone apart and examine that switch. Is it as easy as blowing compressed air (PC cleaner type) through it to clear it?
EDIT: Well, I gotta give it to you guys. You were spot on. I took the phone apart and really did nothing more than tap on the switch directly and it booted right up. I hit it with some canned air just to be safe and clean it all out. It's currently charging back up and looking fantastic at this point! Thank you guys so much. You've saved me from having to go any longer with a Blackberry!!
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Thank you for posting your resolution. Many don't and it kind of leaves us hanging as to whether or not suggestions helped.
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Thank you for posting your resolution. Many don't and it kind of leaves us hanging as to whether or not suggestions helped.
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Thanks!! In the spirit of helping others plagued by this issue, it's interesting to note that my power button always "clicked" like it was making good contact, but never worked. As soon as I cleaned the switch, it started working, the click stayed the same either way. Moral is, even though the power button feels like it's working, CHECK IT!! :highfive: