I've had the Galaxy S3 about 2-3 weeks now and running the latest stock firmware with nova launcher since the beginning but seem to have an issue with the home button. I'm finding when I'm in apps and want to exit them going back to the home screen by pushing the home button a lot of the time I'm having to press it twice, why is this? Is this a know issue? Could Nova launcher be causing this or even worse a hardware issue?
Sometimes it works fine but only usually after I've already double tapped it twice but comes back again after leaving the phone for a while. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Imho doublepush of the home button will cause Svoice to popup..
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pingo10 said:
Imho doublepush of the home button will cause Svoice to popup..
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You're correct however I'm not pushing it quick enough for this to happen. I’m literally pushing it realising after a second or so it's not returning me to the homescreen and then having to push it again & it works.
I tried a second delay and you are right, it wont pop up. Definitely something with rom.
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I tried a second delay and you are right, it wont pop up. Definitely something with rom.
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It's not popping up S-Voice which is the problem here, it's me returning to the homescreen from within apps, I push the home button from within an app to return to the homescreen only for nothing to happen hence why I have to push it a second time.
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It's not popping up S-Voice which is the problem here, it's me returning to the homescreen from within apps, I push the home button from within an app to return to the homescreen only for nothing to happen hence why I have to push it a second time.
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Just to let people know I've disabled S-Voice since yesterday evening and havent had the problem one so far! *touch wood*
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Just to let people know I've disabled S-Voice since yesterday evening and havent had the problem one so far! *touch wood*
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This problem have been annoying me so much since I got this phone. I'm using Apex launcher btw. I'll try disabling S Voice and hope that works. Thanks!
No problem with mine. It works as intended.
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I can confirm it
I have the same issue...
I don't think it's only you who are having a problem.
Anyone any idea?
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kimsj756 said:
I have the same issue...
I don't think it's only you who are having a problem.
Anyone any idea?
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I do have to say though...
Disabling shortcut (click home button twice to launch S Voice) makes the home button responsive a lot better.
You can try that...
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Ok so ive someone else post about this before just canteen remember if it was on another forums or not.
Ok so earlier today i was messaging someone and i was trying to get out the message screen but my phone was taking too long or i was just impatient but anyway i kept hitting the home button then i hit the back button and all of a sudden i heard a shutter sound. Sooooo i went into my gallery and there it was a seperate folder just for "screenshots" and mind you i do have the shoot me app and the folder for that is "shoot me". Has anyone else ever experienced this? I thought it was so cool that there is/was a built in screenshot but just wish i knew how to do it again i was so excited!!
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I've experienced this 2 times, I searched everywhere in how to do it, but people keep saying they didn't on accident, we need a dev to answer this question
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this happened to me a few days ago, as well. thought it was a hidden TW bionix-v function. I tried a number of different key presses to no avail. somebody has to know what the deal is, right?
Seen this alot here but no one can seem to remember what they did to make it happen...its weird..
Lmao happen 3 times to me to smh
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Ahhhhh. Why doesnt anyone remember!? Lol.
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I posted this same question in the axura beauty thread. I thought it was a special addition to the axura rom. I found out that its not a rom special but its actually an android feature, only problem I haven't got an actual answer on how to access this feature nor do I know what to look for. I have googled this several times and all I get are results telling me about drocap or shootme and how to use the ddms in order to screenshot without root.
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I know for a fact how to do this. I don't think you can force a screenshot with any soft touch keys but you'll notice the screenshot goes off when you're exiting an app/browser and the system freezes up briefly and when you try to hit home on the frozen screen it takes the screenshot. It's happened to me on a few occasions and I distinctly told myself to remember what was happening when the screenshot goes off and turns out it always goes off when my screen is frozen and I hit my home key, while thinking my back button wasn't registered and in fact, was registered and I just got impatient and hit my home button.
I've got a feeling it's a bug log kind of thing. Every post I've seen about it mentions that the phone locked up, and the user pressed buttons rapidly. Sure, we can take Screenshots! You have to have a crashing app to do it though.
This topic has been covered soooo many times not only here on XDA but google.
Recently here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866272
If you have a vibrant running stock froyo.ka6 you can try this screen capture app from the market:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-...tomorrowkey.android.screencaptureshortcutfree
The only one that does NOT require rooting.
rel500 said:
Ummm neither of those links answer anything related to the subject. He's not asking for an apk but how to launch the actual service. Smh at some of the replys.
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Thank you. =)
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Thank you. =)
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your welcome, it happend to me a cpl of times today after morphing my framework, phone would get stuck i press home and (shutter sound)
screenshots
im running a stock 2.1 vibrant and this app says device not supported why ?
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im running a stock 2.1 vibrant and this app says device not supported why ?
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It's a 2.2 feature.
And why are you on XDA and still running 2.1?? Time to upgrade man lol
hanbaoquan15 said:
It's a 2.2 feature.
And why are you on XDA and still running 2.1?? Time to upgrade man lol
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I lol'ed..........a little.
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your welcome, it happend to me a cpl of times today after morphing my framework, phone would get stuck i press home and (shutter sound)
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Hmmmm it seems like StevenJCarney might be correct. Like he said it seems like it happens when peoples phones lock up & it could be a bug.
Hope it isnt a bug & someone is able to figure it out.
Same exact thing here. It really sucks an app has to crash to use it.
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If you have a rooted phone you can just use an app called screenshot which works perfectly. And it's free.
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If you have a rooted phone you can just use an app called screenshot which works perfectly. And it's free.
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Yea I have the shootme app. Were talking about the phone having a built in screen capture that goes off when an app crashes.
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Nope
Doesnt work for me.
Anyone's phone just freezing for no reason? Having to pull battery to fix.
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Also notice I have no lights on my bottom touch buttons
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raider89 said:
Also notice I have no lights on my bottom touch buttons
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The phone did freeze up on me a couple times, but not too often. Just make sure you did a clean install..again it's a beta and isn't complete or perfect. Are you overclocked/undervolting? What values? How many apps are you running, there's just so much that can cause the freeze...Regarding the buttons, yes they do not light up...yet.
Yeah it happens every now and then, particularly when transitioning in the stock android car dock app.
I really wish I could hold power + volume up to reset (like I do on my Xoom) instead of pull the battery but oh well.
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Also notice I have no lights on my bottom touch buttons
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They work if you turn on autobrightness on screen and reboot then they will work, but when brightness is manually set they don't work by default. As for the random reboots id try a clean wipe of everything and fresh install if it happens regularly. I haven't had a single instance where i've had to pull battery since the release of this beta.
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Yeah it happens every now and then, particularly when transitioning in the stock android car dock app.
I really wish I could hold power + volume up to reset (like I do on my Xoom) instead of pull the battery but oh well.
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You don't actually HAVE to pull battery, it will reset itself after a few minutes.. Mind you it takes literally a minute or two atleast, but it will nearly always reboot on its own if you leave it alone.
I tried to search to see if anyone else had the issue, but all I could come up with was different problems. My phone, all original Samsung ics, has stopped vibrating upon SMS and MMS notifications when the phone is in the vibrate setting, the phone works fine. Audible notifications work fine, but I rely on vibrate/silent a lot, and this is agitating. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix it, or should I just take this opportunity to root it and hope it works out? Thanks in advance!
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I tried to search to see if anyone else had the issue, but all I could come up with was different problems. My phone, all original Samsung ics, has stopped vibrating upon SMS and MMS notifications when the phone is in the vibrate setting, the phone works fine. Audible notifications work fine, but I rely on vibrate/silent a lot, and this is agitating. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix it, or should I just take this opportunity to root it and hope it works out? Thanks in advance!
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Which galaxy note do you have? The international version or ? Also, do the touch buttons on the bottom still vibrate? Or when you type?
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Which galaxy note do you have? The international version or ? Also, do the touch buttons on the bottom still vibrate? Or when you type?
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The AT&T version/LTE. Yes, the feedback, plus typing does work fine. Same with the phone ringer as well. Every once in a while the home key vibrates a bit long/harder than usual, but aside from that everything else is fine.
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The AT&T version/LTE. Yes, the feedback, plus typing does work fine. Same with the phone ringer as well. Every once in a while the home key vibrates a bit long/harder than usual, but aside from that everything else is fine.
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Okay, we are going to do a rest, go to Google play and download handcent its a SMS app, use it to text someone while set on vibrate. If that vibrates or not let me know. If is does, its a problem with your stock SMS if it doesn't still, make sure all vibrate settings are on (there is quite a few) if no again, you will have to hard reset it, everything will be erased, remember to remove memory card, and finally if that doesn't work, its the phone, either get it looked at or you may just have to deal. Rooting has perks, it also could fix this problem (not promising anything on that tho lol)
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Test^ sorry for typos, I wrote that pretty fast lol
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I'm sorry, I should have specified, I already did try handcent and gosms I think it was? Both work fine! I have been trying to avoid hard resets/erasing everything because I didn't want to lose some stuff I have setup, it is always so tedious! Haha. Anyhow, I think it is the native messaging app, I just figured maybe it had happened prior to someone else, and there was some possible fix without having to go through all that setup again! I guess I'm done being able to avoid it. Haha
Thanks for all the help, I do appreciate it!
Well, installing and removing those other SMS apps a few times seems to have "fixed" it, and all my vibration notifications are back again!
press the emergency call
then click emergency contact button
then press the home key then power
then press power again screen will be unlocked
is this fixed yet?
It won't unlock your phone. You can see home page for 0.01sec ....
No issue to me
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I can't verify it atm but according ho published articles, one in many attempts will present you with an unlocked screen.
However no article I read elaborated on whether the issue is in the framework or lockscreen - so if it affecte the default lockscreen or any custom ones too.
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It won't unlock your phone. You can see home page for 0.01sec ....
No issue to me
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It will unlock your phone and you have to reboot it for the ability to use the lock screen to come back.
I could reproduce this twice on my phone but not on a colleagues despite multiple attempts. Both UK unlocked, latest firmware.
Im running 4.2.1 leaked version and wasn't able to reproduce the bug.
It did crash my phone though
I've done this multiple times and I was unable to unlock my phone. I'm only able to see the home screen for a split second but then it goes back to the lock. I got different people to try and unlock the screen but to no avail.
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same here , only shows home screen less than second , only thing you can do is click one applications but you won't even see it open. except you have quick dial widget on homescreen which will annoy your friend, that's all...
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and it is not major bug , only something like SDS or Exynos security problem are called MAJOR ...
MJGirl said:
I've done this multiple times and I was unable to unlock my phone. I'm only able to see the home screen for a split second but then it goes back to the lock. I got different people to try and unlock the screen but to no avail.
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So a couple of things.
1.) you're describing the behavior when you've failed to activate the real bug. Yes it shows the home screen, but if you time things correctly, the lock doesn't come back up.
2.) Leave auto rotation on, and try landscape mode. I found it was easier to hit that way.
3.) Tapping home then power at the right time takes some practice. You may have to try multiple times.
I was trying to unlock with the settings I always have (no screen rotation,.5 animation, etc). Not going to enable them just to see IF someone can unlock my phone. Plus I took 20 mins to try and unlock it with an additional 15 mins from my Husband and that didn't do the trick. I'm not willing to try and spend hours testing to see if my luck finally kicks in
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Yeah, you did it wrong... Try it a few times, it'll work.... On all SIII's it'll work! If your homescreen appears 1 sec, you did it too slow!!
Greetings....
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How fast are you supposed to do it then as I'm so fast sometimes it doesn't react at all.
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Possible fix
It appears that this bug does not exist if you enable S-Voice by going into it's settings and checking the 'open via home key'. I was able to unlock 4 times on my GS3 while the 'open via home key' option was disabled. Once enabled, I have not been able to bypass unlock.
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How fast are you supposed to do it then as I'm so fast sometimes it doesn't react at all.
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Yeah you must deactivate SVoice and then you must type in the wrong code until its locked for ten seconds... Then It'll work!!
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Hi,
Samsung is really slow to react and push a fix on this case... On my opinion its a serious security issue and Samsung should react faster
Hey guys, I am wondering if any of you have experience issues with the built in alarm. Mine sometimes does not tend to ring anymore
after updating to jellybean from att over the air update. It will show up in my notification bar asking to snooze it. When I click on this, the screen sort of freezes for a second and does not open the app. Even when I quit the app and try to open it, it just freezes unless I restart the phone.
Have you try clear data?
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Have you try clear data?
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I will try that for tonight. It happens very randomly don't know why. I have not had any phone issues or updating issue or any of that sort. Except
for occasional lag but could be due to a lot of music on the phone
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Hey guys, I am wondering if any of you have experience issues with the built in alarm. Mine sometimes does not tend to ring anymore
after updating to jellybean from att over the air update. It will show up in my notification bar asking to snooze it. When I click on this, the screen sort of freezes for a second and does not open the app. Even when I quit the app and try to open it, it just freezes unless I restart the phone.
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I had a few problems with my alarm before the update, but it seems to be working fine now. Just go download another alarm clock app from the market. I know it won't look as good, or feel as good as stock, but it's worth a try If your waking up late for work every morning.
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I had a few problems with my alarm before the update, but it seems to be working fine now. Just go download another alarm clock app from the market. I know it won't look as good, or feel as good as stock, but it's worth a try If your waking up late for work every morning.
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Hey, seems that clearing the data has worked so far. I don't know whether its working because of that or not so still waiting till it hangs again. As for downloading a new alarm clock, that was the first thing I had done. But it seems that didnt ring eiher. So i think this was a problem with the phone having to ring,
Ahh, yeah sounds like a phone problem. I hope you got it fixed: )
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I have the same problem, i cleaned cache but it still doesnt work. I tried to use several different programs but none of them working. Is there a solution?
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I have the same problem, i cleaned cache but it still doesnt work. I tried to use several different programs but none of them working. Is there a solution?
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Holy zombie thread, man!
Try unchecking the Google Now "OK Google on all screens" setting.