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I have a droid X2 rooted and sbf'ed with 2.3.4. I also have a desk dock from Verizon. When I place the phone into the dock (which I do at night) strange things begin to happen. I hear clicking sounds coming from the phone -- the sounds made when you tap on the screen! It goes on intermittently all night, and in the morning instead of the standard desk clock display that kicks in when the phone is docked I have other displays on the screen. Several times it's been the dialer along with a dialog saying "emergency calls only" (who the hell was this ghost trying to call?), a few times the Audible app was on the screen, but with nothing playing. Other times it's been some random app.
I have had to wipe every last widget from the dock screen, and before placing the phone on the dock I switch to a blank homescreen and remove the status and dock bars (thanks, GoLauncher!) to avoid any problems. Not that it's been 100% ... this morning I found the Handcent app running.
Anyone know just WTF is going on here?
Gasper trying to talk to the dead?
I had a problem like that but with out the dock, I had to clean the screen REAL good. Not sure if that would work in this instance but give it a try.
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I know the screen acts crazy when ur phone is getting incorrect voltage from the charger/dock...
Might be hardware related tho also...have u.contacted Verizon? Maybe u have urself a "faulty" malfunctioning dock(or even phone)
Good luck...u could always download a ghost detector and see what's going on also hahah
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I know the screen acts crazy when ur phone is getting incorrect voltage from the charger/dock.
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I've had this happen. Try another charger if you have one with the dock then without to help isolate the problem.
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grnsl2 said:
I've had this happen. Try another charger if you have one with the dock then without to help isolate the problem.
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I did switch to another charger that has a slightly higher current output (850 ma) and that seems to have done the job. But I'm not uncrossing my fingers until the phone doesn't misbehave for at least a week. But thanks for the suggestion.
For all those lucky enough to have their hands on a Rezound, please post any problems you are noticing (dropping calls, bad bluetooth, rebooting, etc).
SERIOUS Widespread (A lot of people seem to be speaking up) Issues:
1) Heat Issues (130+ degrees)
2) Dead Pixels
Other Widespread (A lot of people seem to be speaking up) Issues:
1) Since the SD Card now shows as "SD Card 2" many apps which do not know to look for that as the true SD card will not find items on your SD Card.
2) Birthday integration from facebook (birthday in the people app shows a day early) [SAME AS ON INCREDIBLE]
4) A high pitched whine while listening to music through headphones [MANY people have this]
5) The soft buttons turn pink
Other Raised Issues But May Be User/Phone Specific Rather than Common:
1) Notification sounds change seemingly at random
2) Light leakage on the bottom underneath the capacative buttons
If you are having any problems, please head over to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359862
and post your problem and your manufacture date/batch number. Maybe we can figure out if these are just for a specific batch of phones.
Thanks!
/me waits for people to start complaining about battery life
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/me waits for people to start complaining about battery life
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My battery is great. I was in a 4g area tonight for 3 hours. Sittin idle in pockey only to check a few texts and one 3 minute call, i lost 9% of my battery. The 4g on the rezound can be turned off and use 3g only, even in a 4g area
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Thanks. Any issues?
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Not sure if its supposed to go out, but my red soft keys dont stay lit, or light up sometimes. I think i may just be looking at them wanting them to glow? When i first saw them, i wasnt gonna get it. It bothered me that much. But when they light up, it is not bothersome at all. I really like it. Glad i just bought it and didnt let my mind get set against it. As i type this, they are out. Not sure if its sone sort or battery saving thing? They aeem to light up randomly?
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I think turning off the 4g radio helps this phone a lot. Under networks, go into network settings then preferred and you can set it to cdma or lte/cdma.
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My battery is great. I was in a 4g area tonight for 3 hours. Sittin idle in pockey only to check a few texts and one 3 minute call, i lost 9% of my battery. The 4g on the rezound can be turned off and use 3g only, even in a 4g area
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basically you didn't really do much of anything with the phone in that time. id like to see much battery drain there is with it constantly using 4g data w/ the screen on the whole time, for 3 hours. my Thunderbolt would die before the 3 hour mark(stock battery).
Batteries can be replaced with extended batteries. While very important, would still like to hear if there are reboot problems or Bluetooth problems or anything else.
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Not sure if its supposed to go out, but my red soft keys dont stay lit, or light up sometimes. I think i may just be looking at them wanting them to glow? When i first saw them, i wasnt gonna get it. It bothered me that much. But when they light up, it is not bothersome at all. I really like it. Glad i just bought it and didnt let my mind get set against it. As i type this, they are out. Not sure if its sone sort or battery saving thing? They aeem to light up randomly?
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nah, just like on the incredible, they work based off ambient light. tunr off all lights or cover the area by the ear piece, they'll come on. turn on a light and put the phone under said light, they'll turn off.
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nah, just like on the incredible, they work based off ambient light. tunr off all lights or cover the area by the ear piece, they'll come on. turn on a light and put the phone under said light, they'll turn off.
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Dude, you made my day. They work fine. Used to always on. Thanks
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Bob-o said:
My battery is great. I was in a 4g area tonight for 3 hours. Sittin idle in pockey only to check a few texts and one 3 minute call, i lost 9% of my battery. The 4g on the rezound can be turned off and use 3g only, even in a 4g area
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Awesome. With 4G off I am sure it can be manageable. Can't wait to get this phone in 2 weeks.
no prob man..haha on some of the later sense 2/3 hybrid incredible roms, devs couldnt figure out how to turn them off and use the ambient light sensor....so they were stuck on lol
believe me, when i first got my inc, i had no idea why it did that either until someone explained it to me too
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Not sure if its supposed to go out, but my red soft keys dont stay lit, or light up sometimes. I think i may just be looking at them wanting them to glow? When i first saw them, i wasnt gonna get it. It bothered me that much. But when they light up, it is not bothersome at all. I really like it. Glad i just bought it and didnt let my mind get set against it. As i type this, they are out. Not sure if its sone sort or battery saving thing? They aeem to light up randomly?
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I have the same issue.
jayochs said:
nah, just like on the incredible, they work based off ambient light. tunr off all lights or cover the area by the ear piece, they'll come on. turn on a light and put the phone under said light, they'll turn off.
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Doesn't work quite that way for me, to be honest. I was sitting outside in the dark tonight, and they would just not come on sometimes. Most frequently, when I unlocked the phone and explored the home screen, they would stay off. But sitting here now, in a lit room, they do the same thing. Let the phone sit for a bit, and on they come. Weird.
It does seem like an issue to me. Just an annoyance.
Have not tried Bluetooth functionality yet. No random reboots yet. Had trouble getting Wifi to work at the house. Turns out I put the wrong MAC address in my wireless router MAC filter list. User error on that one.
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Not sure if this is worth it's own thread... guess I'll just post it here. I've heard some questions elsewhere about weight. I weighed the Thunderbolt and Rezound. Here are the weights I measured.
Rezound - 170 g.
Thunderbolt - 195 g.
So the Rezound is still a hefty boy. Not as hefty as the Thunderbolt, though.
Maybe you've got a defective one? They're supposed to work based on ambient lighting. Thats weird.
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They do, I bet if he covered it with his finger it'd go on, then go off when directly next to a light (each for several seconds).
A problem is often HTC's settings for ambient light aren't the best, and they won't go on at a relatively dark area because there is a light off in the distance that it picks up.
I do believe there is a few second delay after determining if it's dark or light, so that it doesn't rapidly flicker when changing from light to dark areas.
My HTC incredible did the same thing, and the TB did too. No surprise to hear this
Exactly. Haha
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One other thing about the capacitive buttons. Unless I have defective ones, they aren't exactly "red" when lit up. They look more like hot pink.
Personally, I don't mind. I roll with a green theme, and the pink is a nice subtle clash to the green and complement to the black bezel. If you're unlike me and are afraid of sporting a phone with pink buttons when it's lit up, I guess this should worry you.
hmm..all the videos i've seen looked red..interesting.
maybe that'll be like the ol famous 'pink hue' problem from our amoled incs! haha osme had it, some didn't
jayochs said:
hmm..all the videos i've seen looked red..interesting.
maybe that'll be like the ol famous 'pink hue' problem from our amoled incs! haha osme had it, some didn't
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I think most pics posted online show it in the unlit state, where there is definitely a dark red color. I guess when lit, it's more like Magenta than pink... if you can tell the difference.
Odds are I'm the only one curious but, how's the quality on the earbuds that come with the phone?
Are they comparable to any of the models they sell?
Also as of now does it seem like most developers are holding out for the nexus? Seems to be the impression I am getting - sticking to my Thunderbolt for now...
I set face unlock on Saturday and I've been pleased with the results. When I'm outside it doesn't really work great because of the light, but indoors it works probably about 80% of the time. Are you using face unlock? Any tips on making it work better? Not working at all? Stories please!
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Mine works most of the time - id say upwards of 90%, though I am still getting into the habit of looking at the screen when I unlock the phone.
If you are having trouble, go into the settings an "Improve Face Unlock" at different lighting levels or phone positions.
The only downfall of this, is I assume it could make it less accurately keyed to your face. A friend of mine has actually been able to unlock mine with his face.
Even back when I had my Photon, the one wish I have is that Google would detect the lighting level, and if its too dark, drop straight to the PIN/Pattern unlock.
It takes an extra few seconds waiting for the timeout when you are checking a 3AM email, kind of frustrating.
Mine works pretty impressive. I'd say closer to a 98% success rate (the other 2% would be when I'm in my car driving and I'm either not looking at my phone directly or I have my sunglasses on).
I'd have to say do the "Improve Face Unlock" option. Like the instructions say during setup, make sure that you have a good amount of light, and that you're holding your phone eye-level to you to get an accurate reading. Then, when you go to unlock it, use the same steps.
I used the improve face lock options and now it seems to work every time. I even tried it with my son who looks just like me and it did not unlock for him. I will try it outside again today with bright sunlight.
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I used the improved one as well. My cousin was able to unlock my phone. It accepted his face instantly.
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To those that like it and use it, that's great. To me it's just another useless piece of crap bloatware. Most of the time it doesn't work properly, and i wish they would stick to improving the core features of the phone. Sometimes a great device can be made even better by having a little less.
Face unlock will switch to the keypad faster when lighting is low. I've been given the message "low lighting" and had it go to keypad faster than normal quite a few times.
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Wow, really? I I'd say I have about a 20% success rate. And I've "improved face matching" several times.
That's no good. Does your cousin look a lot like you ? Did you take the initial pic in low light? Can you start over?
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When it was first demoed by samsung or whoever didn't it fail on stage? It always makes me laugh a little when something that's supposed to be fantastic fails onstage or in front of a bunch of people. I think it was volvo's collision avoiding braking system that was one of my favorites...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eChAKm1t3U
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When it was first demode by samsung or whoever didn't it fail on stage? It always makes me laugh a little when something that's supposed to be fantastic fails onstage or in front of a bunch of people. I think it was volvo's collision avoiding braking system that was one of my favorites...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eChAKm1t3U
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This made me LOL at work... Amazing!
I found this feature to be gimicky....
Has anyone got it to work with sunglasses?
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I found this feature to be gimicky....
Has anyone got it to work with sunglasses?
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Not sure it works with the sunglasses. You'd need to wear them every time you wanted to unlock it.
I don't think it was gimmicky, but I did check task manager when I set it up and seen it burning through resources.. Just seemed harsh
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Not sure it works with the sunglasses. You'd need to wear them every time you wanted to unlock it.
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It learns, it works for me with sunglasses reading glasses and or no glasses. Go into the settings and have it scan you with your glasses on should work from then On glasses or no.glasses.
I also have it scan my face in different lightings
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I don't use a lockscreen, I use nolock. I wish there was a way to disable it in the system
My facelock is working great! Probably around 85-90%
And I've done the improving a few times.
Mine worked great when I used it for a day or two, but I could only handle so much of my ugly mug looking back at me every time I picked up my phone...
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This phone blows the s4 out of the water. Love it. Don't think twice about getting this phone
Agreed, best phone I've had in a while.
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i've got one coming in the mail, but im worried about a couple things people dont like. I'm wondering how you guys are dealing with them. i hear the speakerphone isnt too good, are you guys using volume boost or some kind of app to make it louder. im also hearing people are having issues with knock on, having to do it 3 or 4 times before the screen comes on.
i think my biggest concern, and its not an actual problem with the phone. is LGs drop in value so fast, ill probably play it with for a week and stick with my s4 till the phones done dropping in price in about a month.
jmill75 said:
Agreed, best phone I've had in a while.
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Coming from the Droid Incredible, then the Galaxy Nexus, then this - well, the tech has come a long way. I should probably post this in a separate thread, but do the buttons being on the back bother anyone? Because they don't bother me at all. I was a little surprised actually.
its good to hear that from more and more people. i imagine when you click on the back button it pushes the phone forward because of the force it takes the push the button but sounds like no ones having an issue with it.
I also love this phone
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thatg said:
i've got one coming in the mail, but im worried about a couple things people dont like. I'm wondering how you guys are dealing with them. i hear the speakerphone isnt too good, are you guys using volume boost or some kind of app to make it louder. im also hearing people are having issues with knock on, having to do it 3 or 4 times before the screen comes on.
i think my biggest concern, and its not an actual problem with the phone. is LGs drop in value so fast, ill probably play it with for a week and stick with my s4 till the phones done dropping in price in about a month.
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speakerphone? umm im not spoiled since I'm coming from the GNex but i've had a good call yesterday on speaker. knock on issues? i've had one while i was driving and wanted to check the phone layin on the center dash. it woudn't but i guess it was a sign that i shoudln't be on the phone while driving. i've had it for a couple of days and i love it. Rooting is next on the list.
Awesome phone! :thumbup:
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I'm off to the store to pick one up myself. See you guys in a few hours lol
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I'm off to the store to pick one up myself. See you guys in a few hours lol
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Lucky, stupid sprint:/ preorder on October 11the. The faaacck
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thatg said:
i've got one coming in the mail, but im worried about a couple things people dont like. I'm wondering how you guys are dealing with them. i hear the speakerphone isnt too good, are you guys using volume boost or some kind of app to make it louder. im also hearing people are having issues with knock on, having to do it 3 or 4 times before the screen comes on.
i think my biggest concern, and its not an actual problem with the phone. is LGs drop in value so fast, ill probably play it with for a week and stick with my s4 till the phones done dropping in price in about a month.
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Speakerphone & call quality works fine for me, but each person seems to have diff exp when it comes to them. Honestly, this phone could produce NO SOUND and i'd prolly STILL use it, lol
as for Knock On, it takes a few awhile to a) realize you have to tap on a "clear spot" on any homescreen, not over an icon or you will launch it, little bit of learning curve, ppl soooo exaggerate... b) it seems to respond MUCH better to 'tap" from fingertips, not a "knuckle"...And most imp, if you find always, "looking for a cleared area to tap" to turn your device off, just double tap anywhere up by notifications, and it works EVERYTIME!
Do not be worried, within 10 minutes of opening the box, i can almost guarantee you will be totally sold on this phone...
Those "negative Nellies" are prolly the type that HAVE to find something to complain about...Every forum has 'em!
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I don't really use speaker phone so I can't comment, Bluetooth has worked well for me though. As far as knock on, if I have had my screen off for a long time, I find one initial touch and then doing knock on works 100 percent of the time.
And I actually like lg's keyboard! No one has mentioned it.
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Yeah the speaker is a little weak in my opinion. Other than the HTCone i would say that all phone speakers are mediocre.. some are just a little better and some a little worse... I would say the lg g2's speaker is in the middle.. and if anything a little worse.. still it works and does the job for me. As far as Knock on/off .. It's a fantastic feature.. if the screens been off for 20-30 minutes it works the first try.. if it's been hours since you've touched your phone it seems like it takes 2 sets of knocks.. not a big deal though.. awesome feature! I've been transferring info/data/progs from my gs2 the last couple days and have noticed myself knocking on the GS2.. pretty funny but it's seems natural even after the first day!
Love the LG keyboard, I was using a leaked version on a rooted Optimus G and its the best kb I've used and it comes with 4 skins I believe. Knock on and off is imo the best feature out of all that any company has come up with in the last batch of flagships. I'm talking dynamic notifications, and always listening crap. Also nice to see they use the only feature I actually used on my old S4, smart screen to detect your still looking at screen and display stays on. I love the drag up feature to access quick access items, they added tons of options to the launcher more in line with an aftermarket one to a degree with icon changing, screen transitions and such.
Speaker isn't the worst, but it isn't the best either. Scale of 1-10 I would give it a 6 in accordance with my experience with other phones. It's very usable but won't win any awards for speaker sound, like the HTC One.
As far as knock on; when the screen is on, "tap off" works flawlessly when tapping the bar on the top or any open unused area on the screen. When "tapping on" the phone I tap three times and it works every time. Sometimes double tap doesn't work the first time when the screen is off.
tri0xinn said:
Yeah the speaker is a little weak in my opinion. Other than the HTCone i would say that all phone speakers are mediocre.. some are just a little better and some a little worse... I would say the lg g2's speaker is in the middle.. and if anything a little worse.. still it works and does the job for me. As far as Knock on/off .. It's a fantastic feature.. if the screens been off for 20-30 minutes it works the first try.. if it's been hours since you've touched your phone it seems like it takes 2 sets of knocks.. not a big deal though.. awesome feature! I've been transferring info/data/progs from my gs2 the last couple days and have noticed myself knocking on the GS2.. pretty funny but it's seems natural even after the first day!
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Speaker volume for both media and speakerphone can be fixed if u r rooted. Its pretty easy. There is a xda thread on how to do this.
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Anyone else usb cable go in so snug that it is a pain to pull out? I'm with T-Mobile, I mean its in their so tight I could use it to rappel with as in toss the phone end onto a building ledge and then climb up the cable.
I have the Verizon version and it does fit very snug.
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Anyone else usb cable go in so snug that it is a pain to pull out? I'm with T-Mobile, I mean its in their so tight I could use it to rappel with as in toos the phone end onto a building ledge and then climb up the cable.
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Yes. It actually pulls my BodyGlove case off. LOL I'm on the AT&T variant and I'm guessing the pins will get worn down a bit after a while.
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Speaker volume for both media and speakerphone can be fixed if u r rooted. Its pretty easy. There is a xda thread on how to do this
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Viper? Was curious if anyone has tried it yet
NVM!!! Found it! Any instructions on how to troubleshoot charging port still appreciated. Should I buy the HTC One? It's "free" right now, presumably because the m8 is about to come out.
Phone thinks I'm plugging it in, unplugging, plugging in, etc. The screen turns on each time. Besides being obnoxious, this is going to wear my battery down really fast. I've been suspicious my port is going bad so really I just want to know if there is a setting to keep the screen from turning on when "plugged in". I thought I remember such but am not finding it.
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There is an option in Developer options to keep the screen on when charging, but I don't remember ever seeing one to keep the screen off. And I'm not sure if it is in all roms. I'm running SHOstock3.
Edit: misread the question, sorry!
That happens because your charging port needs to be replaced, Well, there is a "trick" (or whatever it is) to fix it, but it with the time it will fail again,. with a needle or a little stick try to move to the center the thing that looks like a tongue in the charging port, and that should fix it for a while.
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