Hi all, just got the Note the yesterday and while playing around with it noticed that on Netflix viewing the button lights don't go off, ever.
Tried doing a search in this forum and didn't come up with anything but maybe someone knows what's going on?
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I believe that's normal. Mine stays in also. I had a dell streak and it did the same thing.
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1) Wow, those buttons seem really bright on the white Notes
2) Based on my past Samsung devices, altering the capacitive buttons behavior must be baked into the Kernel. So it will take some custom development to get Back Light Dimmer functionality exposed.
yeah the buttons are overly bright on the white version. seems like a bit of the screen backlight shows through. very annoying when watching in the dark, not so noticeable during the day or in a lighted room.
might have to break out so black tape when in the dark if this is how it's always going to be
poocano said:
yeah the buttons are overly bright on the white version. seems like a bit of the screen backlight shows through. very annoying when watching in the dark, not so noticeable during the day or in a lighted room.
might have to break out so black tape when in the dark if this is how it's always going to be
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I think it has something to do with the "keep screen on" setting in these applications.
Tape? Yikes, not me! I cover them with my thumb. Get deep enough into a movie and they don't bother you so much
I just turn them off all together. I know what button does what.
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id10terrordfw said:
I just turn them off all together. I know what button does what.
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Same here
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id10terrordfw said:
I just turn them off all together. I know what button does what.
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Honestly, until you said that, I had no idea there were options for the buttons in the Settings. lol. yeah, that seems like the best workaround
Display -> Touch Key Light Duration -> Always Off
id10terrordfw said:
I just turn them off all together. I know what button does what.
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I had no idea either there was an option. Never even crossed my mind as they never have been an issue before.
This will work perfect, thanks.
Thanks
Awesome tip, there seems to be nothing else on the Internet about it.
Saved my night!
Thanks
Glad you figured out how to turn off the capacitive buttons, that problem bugs me too. On another note, I friggin love Weeds.
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It seems to be off at the top and bottom of the screen. It will click on things above my finger at the top of the screen, but below my finger at the bottom. Always closer to the edge. In the middle is perfect.
Any one else notice this? Should I exchange it?
Aiming for the middle of the boxes.
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Same here. While I do have a dead pixel toward towards the bottom, my main reason for wanting to exchange it is how the touch is off on the top and bottom.
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gr8hairy1 said:
Same here. While I do have a dead pixel toward towards the bottom, my main reason for wanting to exchange it is how the touch is off on the top and bottom.
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I wonder if its a widespread problem, or isolated. I'd hate to unroot and return it to end up with the same thing.
Same feelings here. There's not really a definitive guide how to prep this phone for a warranty return. Not sure what that all entails, aside from the obvious.
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I know this is a slightly older thread but I have an update since last.
Returned my phone today 'primarily' because of a dead pixel.
But the screen digitizer is no longer off near the top and bottom. So much better! No more accident double spaces causing a period or accidently turning on caps.
Didn't think it was that annoying until it's gone and I don't have to deal with it anymore.
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I decided to keep my phone, and not exchange it. It's not off enough to justify it, and everything else on the phone works perfectly, so I'm just gonna live with it.
ill return mine... just sick of it
Calibrate your screen in settings
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Calibrate your screen in settings
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And this screen calibration setting would be located...? I've looked over and over and never seen any option in various roms to calibrate the screen.
Settings/display horizontal and gyro settings fixed one of my friends. It was off but isn't anymore. Though it has nothing to do with the touch but it fixed it...
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Not sure if I'm experiencing the same problem. I dropped a post on another thread but this seems to be more like it..
My example (I'm not as techie I guess) would be:
Tap on engadget app - No problems
Tap on a story - No problems
Tap on the comments - Have to do this repeatedly till it comes up
This isn't the only app or problem obviously but that's the one I notice the most.
I am on the verge of returning it considering it's a 200.00 phone.. I shouldnt have to tap something 4 times to get the item to respond. It's really frustrating. I am rooted, stock only. No custom rom. Thought it could be because I am rooted, running Go EX Launcher, Live wallpaper, etc but even using the stock launcher w no live wallpaper and eliminating some other things it doesnt make a difference. I did try the screen/gyro cal and it made no difference. Please let me know if you guys are having the same issue.. My return period is rapidly coming up..
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And this screen calibration setting would be located...? I've looked over and over and never seen any option in various roms to calibrate the screen.
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The guy is talking about a different calibration, he is talking about the
horizontal calibration under settings>display>horizontal calibration...
Just updated my Prime to ICS, and everything was jaw-dropping. Great improvements. But then i get a diagonal flickering on the screen every once and a while. Anyone else experiencing this?
I am too. it' a little more than once in a while for me. it's more like 3-4 times a minute! Annoying to say the least!
nothing here guys LOL
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original G said:
I am too. it' a little more than once in a while for me. it's more like 3-4 times a minute! Annoying to say the least!
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same here, anyone try a factory reset?
It killed my tablet
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that sucks. try a factory reset.
No dice. Same thing happens. Looks like it's intermittent too, like it'll boot okay then flicker. Then occasionally it'll show other nonsense in the framebuffer too.
Wow! Am I glad I haven't got the update yet. Sorry to hear about it guys.
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Wow, I had it much worse than that, I had a thousand color lines across my screen and could only see a sliver of the home screen. Reboot corrects it, hopefully it is just a one-off thing since I haven't rebooted since the install.
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No dice. Same thing happens. Looks like it's intermittent too, like it'll boot okay then flicker. Then occasionally it'll show other nonsense in the framebuffer too.
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Well it's more than likely software related since it wasn't happening before. Did you have asp locker enabled by chance? Wonder what the common denominator is.
Sorry I made a thread about this before I saw this one. I'm getting it to, even after a factory reset and reboots.
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Literally took it outta the box like an hour before. Essentially stock. I hadn't even opened the browser.
I'm hoping it's software and isn't a case of the update frying the GPU somehow...
search. this has been discussed twice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436951
It was happening to be in honeycomb so i dont wtf is up
Nvm
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Same issue here after ICS upgrade. Never got that before...
Bump, is no one else experiencing this?
I just upgraded to ICS. The flickering lines as previously pictured are also happening to me. Super annoying.
wow, things just keep getting better and better for the TF201
Oh wow!!
This is just ridiculous!!! I was considering giving the OG ATP another chance if I could find a unit free of defetcs. But between this problem with ICS/OG ATP and the better value 250.00USD 7" ATP, I think I'll pass.
These problems are gonna kill the ATP's resale value, and to me that is most important in the world of evolving tablets.
I shut my down and left it charging over night. I've been using if for like 15 mins so far this morning and it seems fine now. I hope it stays this way...
Ok so one of the cool features I was excited about was the eyetracker feature. But I've haven't noticed it once work for me. They icon will flash on the status bar but it will still keep going black. doesn't matter how close the phone is or what kind of lighting is in the background. Anyone else?
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Was the front facing camera directly facing you when the icon appears? It needs to be looking right at your face and not angled slightly in any direction.
Doesn't seem to work at all for me. I dont believe it's because I wear contacts...
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Works fine for me as long as i'm directly looking at the screen.
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it failed for me a few times at dark lighting conditions. but thats expected. have you installed any apps that makes use of the camera?
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it failed for me a few times at dark lighting conditions. but thats expected. have you installed any apps that makes use of the camera?
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You say that, however the advertising in the UK shows a guy reading to his daughter from the phone in the dark, when his eyes close it shuts off the phone and states the phone only sleeps when you do.
I would call that false advertising if it in fact doesn't work in low or no light...
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Tested properly today, multiple times, on my way through London whilst my girl drove. Bright sunny day, and it failed everytime. I tried opening my eyes WIDE, moving the phone nearer, farther... nothing.
It works randomly for me, in dark or light conditions.
This needs an update, period.
My one fails every timr. It just dosnt work even very bright days. Shame on you samsung.
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Dont like hearing this at all, this was the feature I was looking to the most i think.
It works fine for me. Not 100% of the time but at least 80%. Most of the time I don't even notice the icon flashing because it's so quick.
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Tested properly today, multiple times, on my way through London whilst my girl drove. Bright sunny day, and it failed everytime. I tried opening my eyes WIDE, moving the phone nearer, farther... nothing.
It works randomly for me, in dark or light conditions.
This needs an update, period.
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did you try to put your phone around 20 - 30cm as mentioned in smartstay function? reading with the phone to close to our face also prevents it to capture whole face and follow our eyes movement.
surprised you're all complaining about this. It works almost everytime for me, even if im looking at the screen from a slight skew
I too have been disappointed in this feature. Doesn't seem to work at all.
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Does not work for me either.
I know most people already know this, but smart stay has to be turned on in settings-display. May be just double check if it's on?
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Did any of you try it in landscape mode? when i'm reading pdfs in landscape, most of the times smart stay fails.
I find this very weird to hear everyone having so much trouble with this, me and my friend have not had one drama and it's been awesome. All i did was juts make sure it was turned on in the motion settings and it works a treat!
It doesn't work on me as well
I've tested and seems to work about 70pc of time. It has definitely failed too..... But the little eye icon has shown too and it has kept the screen on.... I'd say failures have been a mix of bad/odd angle held and lighting...
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Works flawlessly for me. But I've got eyes like this:
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I've turned it on, but have only seen the eye icon pop up a couple of times. Seems to time out still.
I haven't had much luck with it...I disabled it after about a day of trying it out.
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I have had no luck with it in many different lighting situations : /
Maybe it doesn't like my glasses or something...
Seems to be more of a novelty, it works sometimes, but I think it has to be directly in front of you.
I have this smart stay on since I had the phone and never seen it work oh and I had the S3 since 6-21-12
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It works fine with me
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I just did another test with really good lighting for 5 minutes with a 30 second timeout and it did say on the whole time. I made sure to keep the phone still and be looking at it the whole time. I guess it can work, but under real life situations maybe it's not perfected yet...
It's worked flawlessly for me so far, even in relatively dim lighting. The eye ball icon should only turn on every X seconds (where X is the the timeout you set for the screen under settings). If your eyes are on the screen when the eye ball icon appears, the screen won't timeout.
After some testing, I've come to this conclusion about smart stay.
I put the timeout to 15 seconds so I wouldn't have to wait long for each test. After 10 seconds, I saw the eye icon appear, and then on the 15th second, it would appear again. The screen would only stay on if I looked directly at the front facing camera on the 2nd eye icon.
I tested it multiple times, just looking at the screen, looking at a website, reading a website and starring at the front facing camera. It only worked when I looked at the ffc when the eye icon appears. Other than that, it would just timeout like normal.
Has anybody else done any type of testing? This is a crappy feature if you have to stare at the ffc only when the icon appears to get it to work because if you might miss it if you're actually reading something on the screen.
Works well with me..
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i wonder if "Crazy Eyes" from 'Mr. Deeds' got a SGSIII yet:
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works fine here, actually, pretty well, my phone sits on my desk at work in a cradle at about the 10 o'clock position (my computer monitor being the 12 o'clock), i will open FB and leave it open, and smart stay works, while im looking at my computer monitor....i think it all depends on how well the software can differentiate your eye from the rest of your face, or if you wear glasses
Finally got my Mega and it's actually smaller that expected. The build quality is okay but there's a small ripple on the screen when you press too hard on it. I think its caused by the LCD and the glass when put under pressure. Anyone have this? It only appears when pressed hard and it's only one small point on the screen so I can live with it. I'm also afraid I'll get a worse one if I have it replaced.
Yep standard LCD then again no need to press to hard hey
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Yep standard LCD then again no need to press to hard hey
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So you have the same issue? I just called Samsung to have it repaired, they said it only takes 5 days. I'm a bit OCD so it will bug me to no end. If more people have this then I might just live with it.
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No not that bad only if I press unnaturally hard normal use is nothing at all so yeah you must of got a faulty one
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No not that bad only if I press unnaturally hard normal use is nothing at all so yeah you must of got a faulty one
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It only appears on the same spot when pressed hard, I actually had a hard time taking that pic because it disappears after the tap.
I'm not sure if this is a real flaw or defect. Most LCD screens behave this way if you press really hard. However, pressing normally hard on the 3 GT-I9205 devices here, I can't reproduce the effect.
Gutting mate a bit more of a wait
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Gutting mate a bit more of a wait
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Maybe when I get it back the Xtralite ROM will be out I'm gonna use the phone all weekend and see on Monday if it gets better or worse. The warranty is 2 years anyway so I can have it repaired at another time if I get used to it. It doesn't appear on regular taps, just hard taps.
I have 4 spots on my screen that look like that when you press slightly hard on the screen. Same as what gx3k posted.
You can still see them as they stay brighter than the rest of the screen on white backgrounds. It's beginning to bother me because they are so visible on white backgrounds. I think I may have created these spots when I was installing the screen protector.
When you press too hard on the screen it sort of damages it and causes these areas.