I recently moved from a fried Sprint Epic 4G to the new Evo. Fully stock, I've noticed that there is a momentary screen flash of... something (can't quite make out what it is, it's so quick) while typing a text message in landscape mode. This is true even on my current ROM (MeanROM ICS 4.2). As far as I can tell, there aren't any strange pauses or whatnot, and it doesn't matter what keyboard I use (stock HTC or Swiftkey 3). First - does anyone else have this problem? And second, has anyone successfully solved it? It's more maddening than anything else, as I can keep typing my texts just fine after it happens (like once every 5-15 words).
Thanks
Just did a landscape test. Didn't notice any flashes on the screen. Not sure where Im suppose to be looking. Fully Stock
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Same issue here using swiftkey but in portrait mode. Its like the keyboard flashes real quick.
Yep same here. Imma SwiftKey user as well. Beenn seeing this for sometime now. No explanation for it either
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Same here... SwiftKey on two phones, EVO Lte and GS3 does it on both.
Stock swypes been doing it for me in portrait mode as well. It looks like the screen is tearing over the keyboard with part of it getting garbled.
Redraw issue, might be something in the HTC framework
Ok, seems like I'm not the only one. Also, I've noticed it comes more often right as a text is incoming in the messaging app. The problem seems to persist across some keyboards and across some phones, but not others. Smells like a simple ICS issue.
Now, howbout the screen backlight flickering issue during onscreen grays and while looking at photos in the Gallery? I'm thinking of switching out my phone in the Sprint store tomorrow.
I've also started running in to this lately. For me it's only been happening with SwiftKey in portrait mode, and only in the messaging app, haven't had issues with this anywhere else.
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Hi,
I have noticed something strange on my Titan, just when I wanted to reply on an email. I was typing (black letters on the white background in the mail app) and suddenly I saw some strange shadow of the keyboard in the mail I was typing. When I press, let's say the Enter button, I can see the shadow of the Enter button a few inches above the keyboard itself as well. It's hard to explain, but I think it has something to do with the lcd itself. I was wondering if anyone noticed this as well?
jorisd1980 said:
Hi,
I have noticed something strange on my Titan, just when I wanted to reply on an email. I was typing (black letters on the white background in the mail app) and suddenly I saw some strange shadow of the keyboard in the mail I was typing. When I press, let's say the Enter button, I can see the shadow of the Enter button a few inches above the keyboard itself as well. It's hard to explain, but I think it has something to do with the lcd itself. I was wondering if anyone noticed this as well?
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I have noticed it numerous times and you will see it more often it you tend to swap from landscape to portraite mode with white background. I don't think any other phone has it. It's just the LCD itself like you said. Why it does it, won't know yet. But you will see it very very often even in apps at times if you keep white background permanently.
Thanx for your reply! I was searching for it on Google and I found somewhere that a few other users of WP7 (on different brands of phones!) have this issue as well... Strange stuff!
jorisd1980 said:
Thanx for your reply! I was searching for it on Google and I found somewhere that a few other users of WP7 (on different brands of phones!) have this issue as well... Strange stuff!
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Oh haven't come across that on other WP7 bit. But now that you've posted in WP7 general section, probably we will get more insight!
This has been a visible issue on a number of phones since the Mango update. I've noticed it on every Windows Phone I have owned, though it's not enough of a bother to me to get all up in arms about it. Hopefully just a little bug that will be squashed one day.
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Funny... I noticed this a few hours ago when I was replying to an email as well... Before reading this thread so not like I was even looking for it
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question and observationsstion part:
1. Has anyone noticed a white washed effect one their prime every so often? I am having this issue where reading something in black/white, the letters seems to be washed out and the white over powers the black text line definition so it becomes a white blurish effect.
1a. I have also noticed my led display has this "oil spill" under the glass somewhere in the upper middle area. A little minor grab of the prime on certain corners moves and reshapes this "oil spill". Does this have anything to do with #1?
Observation:
Not a super tech junkie but is there some sort of a memory leak in the ROM? I have noticed the reboot happens when the Asus task manager craps out and when ics+ browser is handling some open tabs with at least one tab with a video playing. I may be completely off here but that's just my observation. It seems the prime slows to a crawl with a few apps open and it speeds up when i close them but then it reboots when I reopen the same apps (mostly ics+ and maybe maps and translator and opera). I am going to stop using ics+ and use opera and see if it does this. I am also using dolphin so I'll be switching around however I am wonder if anyone has found a rhythm or rhyme to the rebooting issues.
Thanks!
Well the reboot thing isn't new,but you know there is a limit of available memory so if you're like me, opening closing apps like crazy and complaining about when one of them eventually crash you're just rising the pole. I use system panel to track how the device is doing and if in need of something to do to it.
I've had the wash out effect happen when you hold it on certain angles. I posted a thread about it not too long ago because I noticed my TF101 didnt do this. So I had asked some people who had them both to compare. The last post in the thread the poster noticed it as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1669860
As the title suggests, typing is very difficult on my Rezound. It has been since I first got it. As I try and type, my key presses take a long time to register. This happens to me regardless of rom or keyboard. Does anyone else have this problem and know of a fix? Thanks.
Hmmm... I have heard of this, but mostly on custom ROMs using Swype, the fix was to enable Force GPU rendering in the Settings-Developer options section. If it is enabled already, try disabling it.
Other than that, does everything else that uses the touchscreen work fine? Have you done a factory reset?
I have always used the SwiftKey keyboard to type. At the moment I am using the Adrenaline 2.0 Rom and in Landscape mode there is significantly more lag vs portrait mode. I'm flashing an Rage 1.6 atm. Hopefully that will change it.
Or maybe I just text way too fast.. lol
Thanks for the response. I'm not a big fan of Swype. I am currently using SwiftKey but I have tried many different keyboards. I never type in landscape but I just tried typing in landscape and am getting the same issues with "sticky" keys. I've tried enabling gpu rendering for a week, and then disabling it for a week and have the issue regardless.
My keyboard keeps locking up. Won't respond in any app. The only way it'll work is in landscape. If I power off the phone it'll work again. This happens about every 1-2 days. Anyone else having this issue? Oh I'm using the stock android keyboard if that makes any difference.
No issues here. Check out the 4.2 keyboard.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964663
Only issues I've experienced are of my keyboard occasionally shrinking to about 2/3 normal size. However, i believe this has only happened with the Swype keyboard.
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Hi all. Just the other day I finally made the leap from my venerable Motorola Droid X2 to the Samsung Galaxy S4. While I have yet to root it, I was hoping someone could explain how I could get the air view hovering and swipe gestures to work. I've triple checked things are turned on, watch several youtube videos and nada. Is it a problem w/the VZW build, a feature issue in general or am I just an idiot? It's very possible it's me! Lol. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Now I don't know if any of these could affect it, but I am running Nova Launcher, Unity Launcher and Swiftkey. Not rooted and everything else is pretty much factory stock. I did try returning to the stock launcher and disabling Unity Launcher and there was no change.
Oh and BTW, I'm getting about 12hrs of battery, is that normal for this phone? I could go all day on my X2 so that's a bit of a letdown but otherwise this thing rocks!
No issue here...toggle on...in the settings there is a sub menu for air gestures and all the other ones.
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I heard the air view hover feature only works in some apps. Where are you using it that it is working. I'll go through settings again to make sure I didn't miss something. Thanks.
Yea it only work w/stock apps like stock gallery and stock browser.im having non problems here yea sometimes it doesnt work but alot of times it does. I only use stock launcher and I get up to around 20hrs from full battery to 5%
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Ok, so we're going to go with the I'm an Idiot option... While I thought I had these features turned on apparently I didn't dig down deeply enough into the sub-menus. I have it more or less working now. One thing I found is while the hover-preview works in text messaging, the top one is not responsive, but all others from the 2nd spot down to the bottom of the screen are. In email I don't have that issue though. Too bad it doesn't work w/gmail.
Yea it would be tight if it did lol
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Ok, this is weird, so the hovering in text mesaaging is not an issue with the top conversation. For some reason it won't display comments from certain people regardless of thier onscreen position.
WAIT - figured it out - if the text message is small enough and already fits in the 1-line preview below the sender then the hover bubble does not pop up but if the message is greater than 1 line THEN it works - ok that makes sense.
So now that I have these features working, I just need to figure out how to improve battery. I'm going to install some battery monitors to see what the culprit(s) are that are sucking it dry and take it from there. I guess after that rooting it will be my next step.