[Q] Odd Behavior - Motorola Photon 4G

Just got my Photon. Woo Hoo. I hope I can keep it. I have some issues but they are with Sprint, not the photon.
I am on my second one. The first Photon acted crazy where I would be just holding it on it's sides and if I would just turn it a little in one direction or another it would vibrate and the voice recognition app would come up over and over again.
Now my new one will sometimes do it. Sometimes it's the voice recognition app and sometimes it gives me 3 choices of what I want to do (which program to open). It doesnt' happen nearly as often as it did on the first one. So, now that 2 of them act strange in the same manner, my conclusion is that either I have a setting wrong or there is a bug that is causing this. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Are you stock?
Does it happen when you first get it, or do you notice it after you download an app?
Try to go to stock and do whatever you do 1 at a time until you're able to recreate it. That'll help you
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Are you stock?
Does it happen when you first get it, or do you notice it after you download an app?
Try to go to stock and do whatever you do 1 at a time until you're able to recreate it. That'll help you
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My first one was stock and unrooted. It was the worse one. It did have the update.
The current one I have is stock, but is now rooted. I haven't done anything but add a couple of apps that require root (like Titanium). Works great otherwise......

OK so now I know how to make it act up. If you put it in landscape mode and kind of torque it a little while in your hands it will vibrate and then navigate itself off somewhere else or give you a choice of actions. Anyone else noticed this?
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Sure your hand is not touching the search button? This happened allllll tje time on my evo
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scoobdude said:
Sure your hand is not touching the search button? This happened allllll tje time on my evo
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Yeah, I was thinking the same. If you hold down the search button, it brings up voice search, and double tapping home will bring up voice commands, and holding down the home key brings up recently used apps... At work we call it accidental fat fingers...
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Touchscreen sensitivity app

I had a galaxy's, and recently I bought a Atrix.
I noticed that Atrix has a touch screen less sensitive than galaxy.
I've downloaded from the market "sgs touchscreen booster", this is an app to manage the touchscreen galaxy.
I tried it on 'Atrix and it works fine for me.
Now I am satisfied with the touchscreen.
If anyone has the same problem, I advise him to try.
Sorry for my bad English
I can not tell if it is even working.
psychological solution
It work very well for me.
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aleve1983 said:
It work very well for me.
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What has changed for you, because using a touch test app I see no difference.
Before the touch screen did not take the command from my finger every now this does not happen more.
Sorry fo english i hope you understud
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Installed, seem to have effect, testing nĘ”
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What's the best setting ?
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for me 0 0 0 99 5
I had noticed that coming from Captivate, the touch screen felt... different. Just installed. Hopefully this helps. Thanks!
you are awesome!
I had the touchscreen bug where my screen would go unresponsive, was going to bring it in today (concerned about my device having the france rom on it.) and this app got it working again perfectly!
will be sure to buy you a beer on payday if this holds up.
just installed.. seems to be much more responsive to me.. have it set to "optimized". will try them all out..thx!
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I'm happy for you and for me
didn't seem to do anything on my phone.
dLo GSR said:
didn't seem to do anything on my phone.
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Same. I still, along with (I think) everyone, have the issue with multi-touch when you hold fingers down for a certain number of seconds and the screen equalizes it, forcing you to wait a few seconds and try it again. This really annoys me on games like Jet Car Stunts, when, for example, I hold the accelerate button but eventually I have to let go and press it again to keep the car accelerating.
yeah that apparently is a feature and done by design from what I read. the problem i had was worse in the sent that imagine the screen going nuts after 5 seconds of activity.
Is there any way to increase the multitouch number. This app says it can but it doesn't work I know this is for the galaxy but is there any other way?
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Seems.to work like a charm
sent from my gingerblur v4 atrix with clock delete & motokeyboard
I was getting so annoyed of this phone because when i tried to typed i couldnt type one work without making a huge mistake because the screen wasnt picking up everything i guess. if i typed hey fast it would just type "hy" or something. but when i did this and put the sensitivity up to 80% and left the rest on default it fixed it. now i can type fast without any mistakes and it seems as it fixed multitouch problems as well! This app is definitely recommended.
I've always thought the Atrix screen could do with a higher sensitivity, after using the iphone. It might be all in the mind, but this app does seem to help. It is particularly noticeable when typing, I no longer have any missed letters where I haven't pressed hard enough.
Thanks for sharing this app

Media Volume?

For whatever reason, at random times, the media volume of my phone will just flat out mute. Once mute, I am unable to get it up, even through the sound settings, it'll just go back to mute. My only fix so far is to restart the phone, but it gets really annoying.
Has this happened to anyone else and does anybody know why causes it? I did the whole increase volume thing with QPST and made the volume Lv4. I seemed as if everything worked correctly, but I noticed absolutely no change in volume =_=;
First suggestion, get another phone. I had the same problem...
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dirkyd3rk said:
First suggestion, get another phone. I had the same problem...
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Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
It's more than likely from the spiderman game... You might have to uninstall the update in the game until they fix this bug..
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Mega-Japan said:
Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
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I had it happen.. it happened a lot with my g2x... And anytime I ran cm7 I had to reboot... I'm guessing just a faulty media driver or something else as it doesn't happen often.
Try a to download a different media player (music only obviously) from the market
Or just reboot your phone and increase the media volume in the "settings"
Im sure if its a major bug the developer's will find a fix
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Mega-Japan said:
Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
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Ugh yes I can, why not. I've been through 3 of them. I pay over 230 bucks a month if my NEW phone isn't working as it should Im going to get a new one! Especially if I'm still in my 30 days.....
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dirkyd3rk said:
Ugh yes I can, why not. I've been through 3 of them. I pay over 230 bucks a month if my NEW phone isn't working as it should Im going to get a new one! Especially if I'm still in my 30 days.....
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LOL, glad to see you got another! How is the 2D-3D slider on this one? I'm convinced they are all loose..even the demo models. My second phone has a big speck of dust under the screen...sucks!
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LOL, glad to see you got another! How is the 2D-3D slider on this one? I'm convinced they are all loose..even the demo models. My second phone has a big speck of dust under the screen...sucks!
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They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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dirkyd3rk said:
They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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Bro what happens when you cant? You paid a lot for the phone. Every first run products has its defects. They're not going to deny you. If you just return and go buy at at another place. I know its a hassle but will save you in the long run
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beyond882001 said:
Bro what happens when you cant? You paid a lot for the phone. Every first run products has its defects. They're not going to deny you. If you just return and go buy at at another place. I know its a hassle but will save you in the long run
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Yup! Radio Shack hosed me...had to cancel, get my money back and go over to Best Buy. Pain in the ass...pissed at the Shack. No dust issues on this one and everything seems good, feels like a winner! Now I'm gonna try and just enjoy my phone!!
dirkyd3rk said:
They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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My slider is perfect, it snaps and takes the right amount of effort to slide. I've had two of these phones because of a part number mixup, had the first one for an entire weekend and both are perfect, good slider, no dust, light leak or dead pixels.
CitySuperstar said:
It's more than likely from the spiderman game... You might have to uninstall the update in the game until they fix this bug..
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Fix: Go into Sound settings and change the Sound profile to Normal (preferably before launching the game, but works after-the-fact too, if you forget). Mine defaulted to Vibrate, and it seems that this game is programmed to disable sound (only after the splash screen and intro video, go figure) if it detects this or the Silent profile. Now I can hear the game, for a change.
Mega-Japan said:
For whatever reason, at random times, the media volume of my phone will just flat out mute. Once mute, I am unable to get it up, even through the sound settings, it'll just go back to mute. My only fix so far is to restart the phone, but it gets really annoying.
Has this happened to anyone else and does anybody know why causes it? I did the whole increase volume thing with QPST and made the volume Lv4. I seemed as if everything worked correctly, but I noticed absolutely no change in volume =_=;
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Doesn't sound like a phone problem lol sorry I couldn't resist lol

Text messages being read out loud.. help

Help. So I was playing robo defense. Got a text and it automatically read it out loud.
Was using handcent. Deleted robo defense and handcent and its still reading them out loud with stock messaging app. Phone on vibrate or loud. Doesn't matter...
I get text it says out loud number and message..
Update: when someone sends me a text it no longer automatically pops up. I have to turn phone on for notification of text and it to be read out loud...
How do I make it stop?? Please. Thanks.
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Try the accessibility menu in settings.
What am I looming for?
Says no accesibility apps.
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possibly a setting under 'voice input & output / text-to-speech settings'
I looked there. Don't really see any options. Is there a way to.turn it off completely?
It just turned on at random. Thinking bout putting it in some other language so no one understands it.
Holding off on factory reset. Until nexus comes out.
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Not sure... not seen this before.
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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civicsisedan said:
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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I think I found the problem.
Try again when your sober.
Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
I think I found the problem.
Try again when your sober.
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Hahaha. I wish!!!! Still happening
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There's an app for that!
Did you install it?
This has got to be the most incriminating bug ever! If my texts got read aloud every time I got them, I would not be alive to post this here today... lol
I think you have some shady friend who downloaded an app on your phone to make this happen.
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Defintiely did not install any app or let anyone install anything on my phone.
Again, it happened while I was playing robo defense, I received a text and it read it out loud while i was playing. It then started to read them no matter what.
Just did a factory reset. Hopefully that fixed it.
civicsisedan said:
Defintiely did not install any app or let anyone install anything on my phone.
Again, it happened while I was playing robo defense, I received a text and it read it out loud while i was playing. It then started to read them no matter what.
Just did a factory reset. Hopefully that fixed it.
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I was going to say, uninstall handcent. There is probably a feature in it that does that
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pkopalek said:
I was going to say, uninstall handcent. There is probably a feature in it that does that
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Factory reset fixed it..
I deleted handcent thinking that was the problem but it continued on stock messaging app. So I dunno.
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civicsisedan said:
Sucks. I'm drunk and its pissing me off.
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lmao... I can imagine the messages from my drunk friends being read out loud!!! Hahahaha... Hell, texts from my sober friends would be bad enough.
Glad you got it fixed, but also glad you posted this thread. It really made me laugh.
Same here!
I have this same issue myself, it must be a bug. Luckily it always stays on vibrate. It started out of nowhere and I don't feel like doing a hard reset yet. I looked at every single possible option and none were selected. Hope the next MR update will fix it! HTC and VZW are normally very timely and effective at updating their phones so I'm not too worried. I must say, I don't have a single other bug in this phone which is impressive for such new hardware these days.
yianni64 said:
I have this same issue myself, it must be a bug. Luckily it always stays on vibrate. It started out of nowhere and I don't feel like doing a hard reset yet. I looked at every single possible option and none were selected. Hope the next MR update will fix it! HTC and VZW are normally very timely and effective at updating their phones so I'm not too worried. I must say, I don't have a single other bug in this phone which is impressive for such new hardware these days.
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I remember this happening on my hd2 on winmo. I think voice cmd had accidentally been turned on.
I hope you weren't sexting.

svoice down?

So I guess I do not kno how svoice works but it doesn't seem to be working for me anymore....
I tried "what's the weather like for today" it correctly shows the question, however takes a long time to process and comes back to say " no weather results, sorry"
Anyone else experiencing issues with svoice...I already tried deleting its data and restarting app no luck. it can do web searches but no weather at all
Iconianoob11 said:
So I guess I do not kno how svoice works but it doesn't seem to be working for me anymore....
I tried "what's the weather like for today" it correctly shows the question, however takes a long time to process and comes back to say " no weather results, sorry"
Anyone else experiencing issues with svoice...I already tried deleting its data and restarting app no luck. it can do web searches but no weather at all
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Same issue on my dad's and my s3.
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Same issue here, sprint.
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blissid said:
Same issue here, sprint.
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speedfreak228 said:
Same issue on my dad's and my s3.
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Did it just start for you guys today too? I dint have this happened before today.. thinking something was wrong led me to factory resets, reboots
same problem here (tmobile GS3). it worked yesterday morning then it quit working sometimes yesterday afternoon and its still not working. i wondering whats going on. i thought i was the only one having issues since i just rooted my phone lol
Haha okay scared me. Thought I broke my s voice. I couldn't get any online results..
Must be something server related for s voice.
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Well at least I'm not the only one lol. Thought my phone was jacked up or Verizon lol
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s10shane said:
same problem here (tmobile GS3). it worked yesterday morning then it quit working sometimes yesterday afternoon and its still not working. i wondering whats going on. i thought i was the only one having issues since i just rooted my phone lol
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Well at least sounds like I'm def not alone... I will stop resetting things on my end.... wondering what's happened too...
Svoice is terrible nonetheless, It delays the home button (disable svoice and see the difference) it laggs way behind siri and has very limited capabilities. It would be adequate if you can use it when the phone is locked and can be used via headset. The major delay on the home button is a deal breaker itself to me
Down? Hasn't it always been "down"? Hahaha.
Iconianoob11 said:
Did it just start for you guys today too? I dint have this happened before today.. thinking something was wrong led me to factory resets, reboots
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The first time I tried to get the weather from svoice was about a week ago with no problem. So I assume this is a network problem most likely that will be fixed on their end.
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So ive been working on setting my phone back to how it was before I went ahead and reset everything thinking voice broke....I just gave voice another try seems to be back up...I will continue testing into tomorrow will update with what I find...
Iconianoob11 said:
So ive been working on setting my phone back to how it was before I went ahead and reset everything thinking voice broke....I just gave voice another try seems to be back up...I will continue testing into tomorrow will update with what I find...
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Nvm down again...
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Nvm down again...
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By resetting it, do you mean you went back to unrooted? Or just a stock rom?
By the way I'm running Bean's Custom Stock Rom on VZW and it's not working. I'm guessing it's just a server issue with the activation of so many new GS3's
In advance of the Olympics, Sammy has been doing all sorts of network maintance.
Yesterday all the TV services were down.
Is this only affecting Verizon devices?
Could it be related to the updates surrounding the Siri debacle?
I highly doubt it's from the number of activations.
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T3hBraveBoss said:
Svoice is terrible nonetheless, It delays the home button (disable svoice and see the difference) it laggs way behind siri and has very limited capabilities. It would be adequate if you can use it when the phone is locked and can be used via headset. The major delay on the home button is a deal breaker itself to me
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In my opinion, S Voice isn't terrible but it is behind Siri.
To have the home button respond faster just uncheck the 'launch S Voice by double clicking the home key' in the settings. You can also use S Voice when the phone is locked. Setup Wake up commands and you're set.
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Rickinsav said:
Is this only affecting Verizon devices?
Could it be related to the updates surrounding the Siri debacle?
I highly doubt it's from the number of activations.
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I'm on tmo and I do think someone said att too.
kthung said:
By resetting it, do you mean you went back to unrooted? Or just a stock rom?
By the way I'm running Bean's Custom Stock Rom on VZW and it's not working. I'm guessing it's just a server issue with the activation of so many new GS3's
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Resetting meaning factory stock.mine is not rooted. Hope it's temporary.
servers either on maintenance or simply too flooded by too many users trying to use s voice at the same time. mines been intermittent since yesterday
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[Q] SOLVED Switching between calls ?

I feel kind of stupid but I used to have a swap button and now I seem to only have a record button and can't switch when I take a second call. Am I missing something, this seems to be the case in the regular dialer and in rocketdial
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24 hour bump
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I'm going to help get this back to the top cause I have the same problem. Not sure when the swap button went away but I'm sure it was there at one point. I can not find anywhere in the settings that would change this. Only things I have done is root via chain fire method, install twrp, flashed freeza's crt animation mod for the native wifi tether and his beastmode kernel. Have you done any of this? I would love my swap button back but instead I have to hang up with both callers then call back whoever it is I want to continue talking to and it is really getting irritating. Anyone have any ideas or the same issue?
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Thank you. I don't feel so alone and dumb now. I rooted using the other knox safe method dela root and odined the same file in that post although my baseband and software say mi3 and the build says mi5. With calls that is the exact problem I have. I can now record a conversation when its on speaker phone but dont need that. Only other thing I downloaded was rocketdial for a while I thought that was it but uninstalled and have the same problem
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I am finding it hard to believe out of 200 views we are the only ones with this problem. I let my phone update to mj4 before I rooted it. Have you installed the crt animations or a new kernel? We seem so far apart in what we have done to be able to make sense of this.
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snowride20 said:
I am finding it hard to believe out of 200 views we are the only ones with this problem. I let my phone update to mj4 before I rooted it. Have you installed the crt animations or a new kernel? We seem so far apart in what we have done to be able to make sense of this.
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Hope the bump helps. I don't have the issue you described, but I am with Sprint on MJ4 - what root did you use?
Dela vega. Lets try this does everyone else have a swap button in the top left position or does it say record. Or do you have a record button that switches to swap when you answer a second call
And nothimg else installed for me
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And I used chain fire to root. It appears we have both gone completely different routes yet still have the same problem.
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You know this may be because of wanum xposed
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Didn't even think of that but might be the one thing we have in common. Let me know what you find. I won't have time to mess with the phone till later tonight.
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snowride20 said:
Didn't even think of that but might be the one thing we have in common. Let me know what you find. I won't have time to mess with the phone till later tonight.
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Its hard to tell because I reset with De la vegas again. But the first thing noticed n Wanum was the record button checked and unchecked it calls work fine now.
Finally got to mess with the phone and wanam was definition the culprit. I can now swap between calls again. The issue I still have and not sure what happens on the stock rom, when I want to hang up with one person I tap end them it doesn't switch me back to the person on hold. Instead it acts as if someone is calling me and then have to answer the phone where that person had been on hold the whole time. Hope this makes sense.
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The last is normal
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Wrong thread.
snowride20 said:
Finally got to mess with the phone and wanam was definition the culprit. I can now swap between calls again. The issue I still have and not sure what happens on the stock rom, when I want to hang up with one person I tap end them it doesn't switch me back to the person on hold. Instead it acts as if someone is calling me and then have to answer the phone where that person had been on hold the whole time. Hope this makes sense.
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Did you just disable the module this is frustrating I never noticed until today when I tried switching back to the first call I had on hold
It's under the phone tab. Uncheck add record button or something like that. Should work. I have since installed a rom so not 100%. Let me know if it doesn't work and I will reinstall it to see if I can find it.
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I wish we could have both. I want call recording but also want swap. I use swap so little however that I live without it.
what I want is behind the scenes fully transparent over any connection bluetooth or speaker call recording in the background fully automatic.
I had this on my Touch Pro 2 (windows mobile) and its one feature I really really miss. it just "always" worked.

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