Working bottom lights! - Thunderbolt General

I was turning off 4g from my girlfriends TB and noticed that the bottom buttons were lit up after reboot. So I turned off 4g on my TB and same result! Working lights! They turn off when the screen is off and turn back on when the screen is woken up.
Anyone know why this may be? The lights don't work continuously when 4g is on. But do when turned off.
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my lights seem to turn on and off normally but the backlighting behind the home and menu buttons (especially the E in mEnu and the upper right of the house) looks kinda dim.
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They work fine with 4g on lol
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Also works just fine for me..

They weren't working for me with 4g on. I live in SLC and we don't have 4g yet. Maybe this could be why or its probably just a coincidence but I thought I'd post my issue/finding to see if I wasn't the only one.
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I live in Chicago and i have inconsistent working bottoms lights also. hmmm, correction, i had issues. just played with it now to get what it was exactly doing and there are on constantly now when screen is on. yesterday there were only on for a moment then went off.

igotadinc said:
I was turning off 4g from my girlfriends TB and noticed that the bottom buttons were lit up after reboot. So I turned off 4g on my TB and same result! Working lights! They turn off when the screen is off and turn back on when the screen is woken up.
Anyone know why this may be? The lights don't work continuously when 4g is on. But do when turned off.
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How are you turning off 4g?

rotorocker said:
How are you turning off 4g?
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+1. I'd like to know as well.

igotadinc said:
They weren't working for me with 4g on. I live in SLC and we don't have 4g yet. Maybe this could be why or its probably just a coincidence but I thought I'd post my issue/finding to see if I wasn't the only one.
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I live (and work) in salt lake city too. I can't wait til we get some 4G. We have a LTE tower that just got built in the west valley city verizon call center (where I work) so when i get my thundeebolt on monday or Tuesday I will have access for nine hours a day, five days a week. Good to see a fellow utahn.

Here is how to turn off 4G.
Dial *#*#4636#*#*
Go to phone info.
Select CDMA auto (PRL) to turn on 3g, select this option otherwise you will have issues with texts and calls. This is normal 3g that every phone uses.
Select CDMA/LTE Auto to go back to 4g. Battery life improves, I turn off 4g when my phone is on stand by or when I am not doing anything where I need alot of speed.
Good luck.
Credit to whoever found this first. Don't thank me thank google.

The lights seem to be controlled by a light sensor. If you hold your thumb over the Verizon symbol, the lights come. I wish there was a setting to make them come on with the screen.

Awesome to hear! I work at ZAGG's corp. Office, so I should get decent 4g coverage from that tower at your work. I thought I was the only one on here from Utah. Haha only kidding. Thanks for the info!
angermeans said:
I live (and work) in salt lake city too. I can't wait til we get some 4G. We have a LTE tower that just got built in the west valley city verizon call center (where I work) so when i get my thundeebolt on monday or Tuesday I will have access for nine hours a day, five days a week. Good to see a fellow utahn.
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wrb123 said:
my lights seem to turn on and off normally but the backlighting behind the home and menu buttons (especially the E in mEnu and the upper right of the house) looks kinda dim.
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Mine is also dim in that spot. Is anyone seeing this?

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Had phone for one week, no longer recognizing fast swipes.

For the first week, I could do a fast swipe across my home screen to get it spinning. Worked 100% of the time. As of yesterday, it literally no longer recognizes these swipes. It won't move at all, or sometimes it will think I clicked on an app instead of swiping.
Same thing applies to the lock screen. I have to slowly bring up the ring to unlock. Extremely irritating.
What saddens me is this happened on my first phone as well after about a week (exchanged that phone because of dust). Looks like it wasn't just that phone.
brian85 said:
For the first week, I could do a fast swipe across my home screen to get it spinning. Worked 100% of the time. As of yesterday, it literally no longer recognizes these swipes. It won't move at all, or sometimes it will think I clicked on an app instead of swiping.
Same thing applies to the lock screen. I have to slowly bring up the ring to unlock. Extremely irritating.
What saddens me is this happened on my first phone as well after about a week (exchanged that phone because of dust). Looks like it wasn't just that phone.
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Same thing happened to me. Seems like after a week things get funky. Probably just some crappy software coding because the Evo3d doesn't have that problem at all.
jlevy73 said:
Same thing happened to me. Seems like after a week things get funky. Probably just some crappy software coding because the Evo3d doesn't have that problem at all.
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Hopefully that OTA coming out fixes the problem, or else I might return it for good and wait on another phone.
I had it for 9 days. No problems with touchscreen. And check the "touchscreen not responsive" thread for possible solution
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No issues yet. I only get the spinning effect here and there but I have to swipe fast.
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Mine was like this from the start and I couldn't unlock the screen 75% of the time. Yesterday for no reason my screen is normal and the lockscreen works every time.
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Same thing happened to me last week. Thought it was because I had installed a bunch of apps, but it wasn't that. What I did was I cleaned the phone with a cloth (inside & out) and VIOLA, it started swiping fast again.
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Seems like a grounding issue, but we don't exactly know what's causing the problem. It works sometimes, doesn't work others.
This really sucks. Just the other day I could get it to spin with one swipe. It's impossible to do with any amount of swipes now.
I have to double swipe to get it to work. I have to kill all the running processes in the quick settings first.
What's the point of the carousel super spin? Mine doesn't do it unless I hit it just right, but in my eyes its a total novelty.
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secano said:
Same thing happened to me last week. Thought it was because I had installed a bunch of apps, but it wasn't that. What I did was I cleaned the phone with a cloth (inside & out) and VIOLA, it started swiping fast again.
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How did you clean it inside? Outside i can understand, inside i'm a bit confused?
crisisinthecity said:
What's the point of the carousel super spin? Mine doesn't do it unless I hit it just right, but in my eyes its a total novelty.
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Agree, not just useless but a waste of time if you trigger it accidentally. Sense REALLY needs a "performance" setting that disables all the animation crap, like Windows has. That sliding home screen after unlocking is also really silly. I want snap, not spins and gradual fades. If they want to make everyone happy they need to maximize customization.
crisisinthecity said:
What's the point of the carousel super spin? Mine doesn't do it unless I hit it just right, but in my eyes its a total novelty.
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Responsiveness
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I'm on my 2nd Sensation and after a week with the second one I am experiencing the unlock issue. I think I'm going to exchange for a SGS4G. Sucks because I absolutely love the phone otherwise.
crisisinthecity said:
What's the point of the carousel super spin? Mine doesn't do it unless I hit it just right, but in my eyes its a total novelty.
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I just use it as a way to make sure my screen is still responsive. I couldn't care less about anything else about it.
crisisinthecity said:
What's the point of the carousel super spin? Mine doesn't do it unless I hit it just right, but in my eyes its a total novelty.
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samnada said:
Agree, not just useless but a waste of time if you trigger it accidentally. Sense REALLY needs a "performance" setting that disables all the animation crap, like Windows has. That sliding home screen after unlocking is also really silly. I want snap, not spins and gradual fades. If they want to make everyone happy they need to maximize customization.
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Yes we all agree that the effect itself is not important. But it shows the responsiveness of the touchscreen. If you cant get it to spin, your phone feels like ass when you swipe things.Well hell not just swiping, anything touch related. I removed my sim card, battery and SD card to take it back and exchange it and all of a sudden it started working great. Has been flawless for the past few days, real happy! until today.. I left it on the roof of my car and it hit the road at about 55 and got ran over multiple times. I couldn't find it when i went back to try and save my sim for the trusty N1 but my Bluetooth earpiece came on when in the vicinity and i actually got a phone call when i was waiting to cross the road to pick up the carcass. Had to use the BT though unlocking on the screen would slice your fingers open. So now i'm back to a non responsive touchscreen! DAMMIT! I finished it off prying it open to get the sim, battery and SD card out. Asurion replacement to be here Friday.
I had the same problem after three weeks of the touch screen working perfectly. I followed the instructions in the touch screen issues thread and it fixed it!. I didn't even wait an hour like it said. Turn off your phone, take the battery out, put the back cover back on, hold the pet button for like 15 seconds then Open it up and put the battery back in and turn it on. Worked for me!
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I had the same problem after three weeks of the touch screen working perfectly. I followed the instructions in the touch screen issues thread and it fixed it!. I didn't even wait an hour like it said. Turn off your phone, take the battery out, put the back cover back on, hold the pet button for like 15 seconds then Open it up and put the battery back in and turn it on. Worked for me!
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That process didn't work at all for me. Left the battery out for just over an hour. All screen issues of being unresponsive are still there. No fast scrolling and lockscreen issue getting quite bad. Can't get carousel at all anymore. And it takes about 5 tries to unlock lockscreen.
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I had the same problem after three weeks of the touch screen working perfectly. I followed the instructions in the touch screen issues thread and it fixed it!. I didn't even wait an hour like it said. Turn off your phone, take the battery out, put the back cover back on, hold the pet button for like 15 seconds then Open it up and put the battery back in and turn it on. Worked for me!
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I might try this but what is the Pet button?

Trouble getting new update

Still haven't gotten the update. Has anyone else had trouble?
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Reboot your phone and use moble network,no wi-fi.
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I've tried that a couple of times. It comes up saying its checking and then it just goes away without saying it didn't find it.
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DjunkD said:
I've tried that a couple of times. It comes up saying its checking and then it just goes away without saying it didn't find it.
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me too
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DjunkD said:
I've tried that a couple of times. It comes up saying its checking and then it just goes away without saying it didn't find it.
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Mother in laws phone is doing the same thing
Pull battery count to 30 reinstall try again....if your not oem stock on phone your wasting your time search other threads for help
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Still not getting it
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Still not getting it.
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Same issue here. I called both verizon and htc... they gave me the same answer. It is a roll out issue. Apparently because its in phases... whatever. My first tbolt came down fine; this is a replacement for a broken power button and now nothing. but at least I still have free tether! HA HA fail/win you decide.
Drop down to 1X and then search for it. Once you find the update, switch back to 3G/4G to expedite the download. Worked on my girlfriend's Thunderbolt.
akanatrix said:
Drop down to 1X and then search for it. Once you find the update, switch back to 3G/4G to expedite the download. Worked on my girlfriend's Thunderbolt.
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I still have not gotten my Update yet.... How do you drop to 1x?
DjunkD said:
Still haven't gotten the update. Has anyone else had trouble?
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Yep! i was rooted up until yesterday. While rooted I checked for & successfully detected it. But I rejected. Did a full backup using TiB and ROMManager first then unrooted. Now that I am unrooted, I cannot detect the update anymore. Been trying for 24hrs.
Just going to give up and reroot using the rooted update.
Verizon TBolt 2.2.1 - Unrooted (for now)
vargo911 said:
I still have not gotten my Update yet.... How do you drop to 1x?
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dropping to 1X doesn't work for me. However, here's how you drop to 1X:
Dial *#*#4636#*#*
Then go to "Phone Info"
Scroll down and choose "CDMA Only" from the Drop Down. Note the setting before you change it so as to revert later on.
Good Luck and let us know if it works for you.
KaptainObvious said:
dropping to 1X doesn't work for me. However, here's how you drop to 1X:
Dial *#*#4636#*#*
Then go to "Phone Info"
Scroll down and choose "CDMA Only" from the Drop Down. Note the setting before you change it so as to revert later on.
Good Luck and let us know if it works for you.
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Thanks Kaptain.. I gave it try and got nothing still. I'm planning on rooting soon but not just yet...
Call support and make sure the imei is correct for your device... That was my issue.
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same here... having hard time forcing the update. running stock.
rebooted, turned down to CDMA only, tried it all and doesn't work.
the first update a couple of months ago worked fine when i tuned down to CDMA only, but doesn't work this time.
KaptainObvious said:
dropping to 1X doesn't work for me. However, here's how you drop to 1X:
Dial *#*#4636#*#*
Then go to "Phone Info"
Scroll down and choose "CDMA Only" from the Drop Down. Note the setting before you change it so as to revert later on.
Good Luck and let us know if it works for you.
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couldn't you just take off the battery cover killing your 3g/4g signal???
nrfitchett4 said:
couldn't you just take off the battery cover killing your 3g/4g signal???
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Lol taking the battery cover off doesn't kill your 4G haha
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Jacob9424 said:
Lol taking the battery cover off doesn't kill your 4G haha
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haha, yes it does. If the battery cover doesn't sit properly, your 4g antenna doesn't work worth crap because it has contacts in it....
Reason why half of the extended battery covers don't work...
God I hope your other 3 posts are more useful...
My update came threw this morning. I am not sure if this is a coincidence but when my green light came on for a full battery charge the update came threw when I checked it .
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Button light problems.

Anyone have the same problem as me? Basically my capacitive button back lights tend to not always actually light up. They choose when they want to light up. I usually do a reboot and they go back to normal but an hour later they shut off and turn on whenever, rarely turn back on though.
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They are turned off when the sensation is exposed to light and are on when there isnt that much light. For example, using the sensation in sunlight will keep it off while using the sensation in a dark room will leave it lit.
durps said:
Anyone have the same problem as me? Basically my capacitive button back lights tend to not always actually light up. They choose when they want to light up. I usually do a reboot and they go back to normal but an hour later they shut off and turn on whenever, rarely turn back on though.
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Never had this problem... but my guess is like the guy above mentioned...
boodee0110 said:
They are turned off when the sensation is exposed to light and are on when there isnt that much light. For example, using the sensation in sunlight will keep it off while using the sensation in a dark room will leave it lit.
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Yeah, I get what you mean, my G2 was like that as well.
Thing is that im in my room right now and its dark in here, besides my tv which isnt emitting much light and theyre off right now. Luckily i still know where the buttons are located and which one is which, but its annoying knowing theyre off when they should be on.
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durps said:
Yeah, I get what you mean, my G2 was like that as well.
Thing is that im in my room right now and its dark in here, besides my tv which isnt emitting much light and theyre off right now. Luckily i still know where the buttons are located and which one is which, but its annoying knowing theyre off when they should be on.
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Sounds like its time to send in your phone for a replacement. I just tried on mine what you described, and my keys light up. I would get a warranty exchange
durps said:
Anyone have the same problem as me? Basically my capacitive button back lights tend to not always actually light up. They choose when they want to light up. I usually do a reboot and they go back to normal but an hour later they shut off and turn on whenever, rarely turn back on though.
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I have the exact same problem with my button back lights, and will probably have to send it back to HTC for a replacement.
schoei1 said:
I have the exact same problem with my button back lights, and will probably have to send it back to HTC for a replacement.
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Just put your finger over the light sensor. If the capacitive lights come on, they work.
If they don't come on, they don't work.
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R WE NOT PHONES?!?
I just learned that if I put my finger over the sensor light, the button back lights turn on. That is great news, because I didn't want to send my phone back.
schoei1 said:
I just learned that if I put my finger over the sensor light, the button back lights turn on. That is great news, because I didn't want to send my phone back.
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True, but they shouldn't function that way. It should be automatic. I'd send it in for repair.
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mike2518 said:
True, but they shouldn't function that way. It should be automatic. I'd send it in for repair.
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They are 'automatic'. They come on when the phone is booted, and when the ambient light is low.
They don't STAY on when you can see them perfectly well without being lit. That would drain your battery life faster.
That's actually a good thing.
People shouldn't return a device because of a 'feature', IMHO.
R WE NOT PHONES?!?
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Mine stay on constantly regardless of light. Not sending it for repair as it's likely software not a hardware problem.
durps said:
Anyone have the same problem as me? Basically my capacitive button back lights tend to not always actually light up. They choose when they want to light up. I usually do a reboot and they go back to normal but an hour later they shut off and turn on whenever, rarely turn back on though.
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I don't even realize if mines are on or off since I know where the buttons are, so I guess it doesn't bother me.

Inspire looses service while charging

My brother inspire is unable to send text while plugged into the charger why is that?
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mine does the same thing I have three bars on my couch but when i plug in to charge it drops to nothing. one bar will flicker in and out. I can manage to send a text if i hold it perfectly still and wait for the bar to pop up. wish I could answer your question, but I dont know, just wanted you to know you are not alone. It hasnt annoyed me enough yet to search for a fix
Mine works great, even at work where I have extremely poor signal. Might be a hardware issue.
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Mine has this same issue. Its intermittent though.
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4G down in phoenix for fourth time

About twice a month, it seems like 4g data goes down in phoenix. Anyone experiencing this? I change to LTE mode in dad bamf settings and get nothing.
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Negative, I work in PHX live in Gilbert... it's never gone down for me... I have had the phone occasionally lock itself in 3G when I know I'm in a 4G zone, but a reboot or LTE on/off usually fixes that.
Mine was out last night but thought it was mostly due to storm, back up again as I am using it now. Queen Creek is my location.
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Thanks guys, I am guessing it is a radio issue. Will try reseting.
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i have lost my 4G service in Phoenix before but then i switch set dns to the google dns option and it works.
Other than sporadic issues lasting a few minutes, have not had any outages in the past few months. Out in the Queen Creek area.
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Mine was out last night but thought it was mostly due to storm, back up again as I am using it now. Queen Creek is my location.
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How'd you like that storm? I live in the outskirts of Queen Creek where the microburst hit. Kinda weird seeing twenty powerlines turned into splinters, looks like something snapped them at the base like twigs.
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no 4G in my area yet, although since yesterday the 3G has been going up & down regularly and is still doing it today. a friend of mine has a Droid Charge and has said the same thing is happening with her phone.
the "3G" logo will suddenly disappear & the bars will go off, then it'll either come right back up(or after a few seconds) and sometimes will show "1X".
i'm in Carlsbad, CA btw. i wonder what the hell Verizon is doing....
Mine cut out for a minute or so but nothing major.
i live in the tempe/scottsdale area and have never gotten 4g outages
Works for me as well. Scottsdale/Phoenix border.
Its been intermittent for a day or two in Dallas/Fort Worth when ever they do the network upgrade nationwide for the new networks to come online.

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