I wouldn't exactly blame this problem on any one ROM, though it does happen more often on my Dutty Touchflo Tilt ROM, beta 2. It has happened on every ROM for this phone, though.
Basically, the Start menu will pop up for no reason. At first, I thought I must be hitting the button, though it happened far too often to chalk it up to user intervention.
Now, I have my phone sitting on the desk, and it's been waking up every few minutes. This happens probably every 5 minutes or so.
Any idea what could be causing it??
Flapjack said:
I wouldn't exactly blame this problem on any one ROM, though it does happen more often on my Dutty Touchflo Tilt ROM, beta 2. It has happened on every ROM for this phone, though.
Basically, the Start menu will pop up for no reason. At first, I thought I must be hitting the button, though it happened far too often to chalk it up to user intervention.
Now, I have my phone sitting on the desk, and it's been waking up every few minutes. This happens probably every 5 minutes or so.
Any idea what could be causing it??
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One possibility is that part of the case/bezel is pressing on the digitizer in the area of the start menu -- This is the worst case scenario though. When the start menu appears do you lose touchscreen functionality?
interesting
I have not heard of this problem, might be your phone. Sorry.
On an unrelated hijacking note: does anyone know how to make the start menu solid instead of displaying my background picture?
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One possibility is that part of the case/bezel is pressing on the digitizer in the area of the start menu -- This is the worst case scenario though. When the start menu appears do you lose touchscreen functionality?
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Nope. I can simply click elsewhere and the start menu goes away. It is driving me crazy.
maybe.....
have you tried reassigning your start menu key? and I assume you've tried a hard reset.
I figured it out! The phone is connected via USB to my PC, and I'm using My Mobiler to be able interface the phone (send/receive txts) from my computer.
If I push the mouse to the upper-left most corner of the screen of my PC, the start menu comes up on the phone. Weird....
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Ok, so far I've dumped the ROM and uploaded the kaiser-HardSPL and all was going lovely. However, after most of a day of pretty much inactivity I find the device suddenly goes very slowly. By which, I mean it can take several seconds to draw the screen.
Thinking this might be a rogue application using up all the processor cycles, I poked it up the bottom with the stick. (While doing this the first time, I held in power and camera just to see the boot loader text, but then I did it again with no buttons held.) It's a Vodafone device but it sat on the Vodafone splash screen for about 2-3 minutes then spent longer than that on the Windows Mobile screen before eventually dropping me into normality.
Except it's incredibly slow normality - I clicked on "start" and after a minute, it's not done anything yet.
Next step is a hard reset unless anyone has any better suggestion?
Help!
I assume you've pulled the battery?
Never assume anything... The full answer is, "No, but I have now"... I'm not sure that's going to do anything more than a soft (poke up the bottom) reset though. I'm now just waiting for the splash screen to subside while I'm typing this.
Having left it half an hour, while it went into standby and after noticing that the clock had stopped updating, I'm of the opinion that the already slow device has got slower...
Ok between 1 and 2 minutes to move from the splash screen to the "Windows Mobile" screen.
Now there's a turn up... After a further minute or so, I get a message, which has now cleared and gone back to the "Windows Mobile" screen before I had chance to copy it here. Basically it said that it had failed to boot either because I'd turned it off improperly or I'd installed something that it was opposed to. I should press send (I guess the green button) to reset to manufacturer's defaults.
Since that's my next stage anyway, I'll re-poke it with the pointy stick and press 'send' when it pops the message up. I'll put my trusty old Nokia N73 into flight mode and take a picture of the message so I can transcribe it here for everyone's amusement.
More news as it breaks.
I've now hit the 'send' button so it's doing a hard-reset. Meanwhile, here's the text it showed me:
Code:
The device is unable to boot be-
cause either you have turned off
the device incorrectly or tried to
install an application from untrusted
source. Press SEND to reset your
device or press any other button
to cancel. This operation will delete
all your personal data and restore
the device to its factory default
settings.
Nice. Ok, I'm at the 'tap the screen to set up your device' screen now.
Wonder what triggered all that nonsense then...
If you're like the rest of us and tooling around the all the fun programs in this forum, there's no telling.
I tell folks on computers, "Every piece of software you put on a machine is a liability to the operation of that machine." We can say that applies to this nifty little devices too.
I've had my phone experience the same symptoms you have posted here. Luckly for me a battery pull fixed mine. Sounds like the luck didn't spread much. Sorry.
Keep at it though. And don't fret the crashes. They do happen from time to time when you play hard.
So, a hard reset and a restore of a backup (Yes, I made a backup a few days ago even though I've been in the trade 20 years!) later, I'm back to normality. All I've done that's weird is install pof's loader and I can't see that's anything to do with it. What I was doing at the time of the slowdown was trying to connect to the wifi network at work. I thought the networking had just got itself tied in knots somehow but as the machine was even mega slow to boot, I can't really see that. At least I can still get back to square one at the moment.
I just need to create a .nbh out of the rom parts I dumped yesterday so that I can recover from anything more major...
Meanwhile, if you do a 'boot loader reset', would you expect it to say 'serial' if the USB isn't plugged in?
I'm starting to wonder if there is a major bug in the WiFi of the Tilt. There are some other threads on AT&T's site about this, and my work with WiFi on this unit has been dicey. Hmmmmm...
I just started having this "bug" yesterday. Basically, what happens (randomly) is that when I press the power button, remove the stylus, or slide the phone open to wake it up I'll be met with a black/blank screen. The backlighting will be on, and the phone is responsive (can receive messages, make calls, sounds/notifications work), but I won't be able to use the screen. If I use the power button to turn the screen back off and wait a few seconds, the screen might start working again. This is completely random and I cannot duplicate it with any guaranteed process, but it seems to be when the phone is waking up from standby. After a soft reset, probably half of the time I'll be met with this same delima, which leads me to believe it's hardware and not completely software.
At the same time the phone is also struggling to re-paint the screen from the change of Landscape-to-Portrait and visa versa. Also opening and closing windows to get back to the today screen also cause a problem. I've disabled TF3D to see if that makes a difference, it doesn't. I have a blank today screen with no plugins to free up the system resources, and am still having this issue.
I'm using JD's Rom (probably around 1.3, it's been running fine with no issues up to this point).
I'm also using S2U2 1.35 (if that makes any difference, haven't had any problems until recently)
The phone has never been dropped, it's in InvisibleShield, and normally sits on my desk charging all day.
This started happening last night for no apparent reason and it's really starting to irratate me.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
Re the black screen:
Sounds like its software related. For example, I sometimes have this if I leave PocketTwit in the foreground and turn off phone. What software did you install yesterday? Also, do you try to press the home key and see if that clears the screen?
After more testing..
After some more fiddling around with the phone I'm about 90% certain it's a hardware issue. I noticed that when I slide the keyboard out if the slide portion is past the number line then the screen will stay on, but not update. I don't know how well I can explain it. If I'm typing and hold the screen to keep it from opening all the way then I can see the letters/words appear (in txt msg/email), but if I let the screen goes and it slides all the way open then the screen will stay on and only show what has already happened, any more typed characters will not appear, but if I move the screen back to the number row then the screen will re-draw and update what has happened.
Is this something that Sprint should fix no questions asked?
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Re the black screen:
Sounds like its software related. For example, I sometimes have this if I leave PocketTwit in the foreground and turn off phone. What software did you install yesterday? Also, do you try to press the home key and see if that clears the screen?
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The last piece of software I installed was Gyrator 2 on Friday-ish. Thinking that it was the problem, I removed it using MemMaid. I'm going to give the phone a flash tonight and see if it is software related (hoping for the easy fix) but as the post above says, I'm almost certain it's a hardware issue. I just wish I knew how it happened. . . So much for that time putting those InvShld on.
Final Update (this can be closed)
I took it into a Sprint store and they replaced the "flip" on the top for free (I have insurance).
Point of the story/thread, this can be closed, it was a hardware issue, and now it's fixed.
Has anyone else had this issue? The Messages Option on the TouchFlo 2D screen rarely works. This is not a ROM-exclusive problem for me (it happens on every flash eventually), I just can't understand why most of the time when I click it, the title bar changes from "Start" to "Messages" but nothing else.
I also have an issue with the top-right program showing option having a huge delay on it. Like, twenty seconds. Usually right after I press down a second time to see if it registered, it will register both at once, and cancel my first click out - extremely frustrating.
No one has any suggestions?
that is wierd... u reset ur phone regularly i assume?
Me too
This has been a problem for me from day 1. Frequent resetting and thank god for HTC Clean RAM (you can find it here in this forum with a search).
One thing that is a prime suspect is ActiveSync, which has never worked properly for my Fuze. I have found that it remains running on the phone in the background, and the ONLY way I can get rid of it seems to soft reset, and then use the drop down in the top right to kill it beceause even AFTER a soft reset it keeps running.
So not much help, but misery loves company so you should feel better now
Hello guys, I have one raphael, and it started a very stupid issue, and this makes me crazy because in the principals times I need to use it, happens that the Panel wich have the answer button, the end button, the house and the back-arrow buttons also, and in the midle have the circular button, wich there are 4 mini arrows, (left,right,up,down), always I press the house and the answer buttons, it is working as left arrow, and the <- with the end button working as right arrow.
I always percepted it, but now it is happening all times, all times I need to press the answe button to go the phone it keeps working as the arrow, surfing on the tf3d.
I need the original configurations of the buttons, I cant persist with it, What should I do?
im pretty sure that bottom area gets messed up over time.
mine now only works with each area whenever it wants.
sometimes all work great.sometimes 3 do sometimes none.
my buddy had a fuze for about a week when the whole bottom panel stopped working for good
usually for me a soft reset helps
I made so much soft resets!
It doesnt work, do you think a hard reset?
What a hell could I do now?
oh my god
could anybody be helpful with me?
I'm needing this help
my fuze is stopping working as phone
that is not descriptive. what doesnt work
the panel
the four butttons on the panel
(house,back,call/answer, end)
It has started messing a long time, and now messed forever, I can make a soft reset than it keeps asking crazily these buttons, everytime as arrow left or arrow right
I need to configure the house as house
the phone(answer/call) as phone
the end call as end call!
basmareck, are you running a custom ROM?
I am running the official raphael's ROM, downloaded on the official website of HTC.
The error is in the panel, at the four buttons, the send/answer button is working as left arrow all the time.
It is messed up!
damnit!
no helps for me, its making me mad
its faulty. youve had it under a year right? get it fixed
Have you tried a hard reset or reflashing the stock rom? What about cleaning the panel? I believe there are only two buttons under that panel, one on the left and one on the right, and the function is dictated by the capacitative nature of it, so maybe it's dirty? I'd say if a hard reset or reflash doesn't fix it, try to seek a warranty exchange.
Also, are you using any programs that make the scroll whell work as something else like SensorScorll? That has a setting to enable touch so you wouldn't need to push down to use the arrows, maybe that got switched somehow to be persistant with everything? I'd give that a check too.
is there anyway to calibrate the screen? im having some calibration issues with my g2x and restarting the phone doesnt help!
I just looked through the hidden menu list. I don't see anything about calibration.
Out of my last three phones that had touch screens, Ascend, Evo, and Indulge, It seems like only one had a calibrate screen option, so I don't think it's real common.
What problems are you having? I've noticed a lot of times with my G2X that when I push a link, it highlights right above it. But the link still works.
I have issues as well, there are no calibration settings in Hidden Menu. Sometimes I press on the screen and it hits something else. Sometimes, I'm not even TOUCHING the phone and it will, by itself, select and enter into different apps on my screen. I thought I had a virus on this thing.
I checked around, other people are having these issues and have NO real fix for it. It has to be an SW problem. When I first started using my G2x, there were no touchscreen problems like there are now. Guess I'm gonna have to change my signature on the G2x away from "so far no issues".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096800
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/T-Mobile-G2x/G2X-keeps-shutting-down-touch-screen-is-jumpy/td-p/825783
Damn LG and T-Mobile really screwed the pooch with these phones. =(
darbear5610 said:
Sometimes, I'm not even TOUCHING the phone and it will, by itself, select and enter into different apps on my screen. I thought I had a virus on this thing.
=(
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I've noticed that the edge of the screen is very very sensitive. I'm constantly opening droidtv when the app drawer is open. It's right at the bottom left. My fat fingers overlap the edge enough to open it. Makes me laigh.
Also, I've set launcher pro to scroll the apps up and around like it is in the stock drawer. It cracks me up how it is so sensitive that you can open the app while the icon is scrolled up and around the corner. Even when it's two rows back and especially out of the way. Try it.
I know you said you weren't touching the phone, but maybe some of these times were when you were just holding it?
Yeah, when I'm holding the phone, the bottom of my palm near my thumb is close to the edge of the screen, and it registers as if I were pressing on the screen with my other fingers.
The screen jumping around randomly, I can't explain it. And it does happen when I'm not even touching it. I would put the phone down and watch it go, entering menus and apps and pressing all kinds of things. On one of the forums I linked, someone said to remove the battery and let it sit for a few seconds, then put it back in. So I've tried that, and so far the touchscreen isn't acting possessed anymore. This isn't a constant thing. It's just happening at random times on my phone, it's leaving me confused lol.
I've just began to run into this issue. It most apparent when using the keyboard, and switching keyboards doesn't even seem to help.
CM7 fixed the calibration and touchscreen issues long long long ago.