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Home lights (Ive not noticed before)

I had to replace a few cappys form bricking and shutdowns. The current one works but I noticed something a tad odd. Previously, I'd set my phone down and go to sleep and remember the home lights not being on...at all. Once I put it to sleep it would be tough to find it in the dark room because everything was dark including the home lights at the bottom. The refurb I have, I noticed yesterday morning, have the home light strip at the bottom turned on when its asleep. Initially, when I put it to sleep, its off. but yesterday and today when I woke up..there's my phone...bottom set of lights on. Im not sure if this is by design of some kind of trick on teh refurb to stop it from shutting down of what...anyone notice anything similar. I would think that if its asleep all the lights should be off.
note this is while it is unplugged.

Since you didn't tell us anything about your phone setup, I'm going to guess that you have a kernel that enabled the backlight notifications.

doh..good point. Didnt even think about that..running cognition 2.1.7 unhelpful.

Screen Off Issue while on phone

I am having a weird problem. I am on stock ATT with root. If i am talking to someone using my phone....if i put it on speaker and screen goes off...I cannot make the screen on back again. If i click power button the phone gets disconnected. its really irritating bug.
Also if i am using GPS while driving and If i get a call....after attending the call and I am not able to go back to navigation app. it shows me black screen.
These two things are annoying me like hell. Any help is appreciated...

maybe set display to never sleep? esp. while driving? will drain the battery faster, but in the car presumably you would have a charger available...

Are you using a screen protector or case thats covering the proximity sensor? Its one of the little spots in the upper left corner. Where most protectors have a cut out. Anyways, thats there to shut the screen off on the phone when you are on it so you dont accidentally hit any buttons. If its covered it wont allow you to turn the display on because it thinks its next to your face. Either that or maybe your sensor is bad.

Disable power button when lockscreen is active?

Basic problem with a simple solution you'd think. Because my phone is in my pocket all day and I do a lot of rolling about on the floor at work and crouching behind cupboards cabinets, and even just sitting down, the power button ends up being pressed which I've realised is why my battery is sometimes down to 30% by 5pm. Some days it can be 100% after 12-15 hours at work if I don't keep catching the power button so this is clearly a massive design flaw.
I've had a look around and not found any information that is useful. I've installed keyremapper and that doesn't do anything more than what I did when I had a play with the Generic.kl file. I can disable the power button wake function but then I can't wake the phone up with swype (or whatever that thing is where you unlock it with the soft buttons). I then tried reassigning the wake function the volume keys and this didn't work either.
Is there a solution to this or do I just have to put up with this massive failing of an otherwise decent phone?

jngfjngfvng said:
Basic problem with a simple solution you'd think. Because my phone is in my pocket all day and I do a lot of rolling about on the floor at work and crouching behind cupboards cabinets, and even just sitting down, the power button ends up being pressed which I've realised is why my battery is sometimes down to 30% by 5pm. Some days it can be 100% after 12-15 hours at work if I don't keep catching the power button so this is clearly a massive design flaw.
I've had a look around and not found any information that is useful. I've installed keyremapper and that doesn't do anything more than what I did when I had a play with the Generic.kl file. I can disable the power button wake function but then I can't wake the phone up with swype (or whatever that thing is where you unlock it with the soft buttons). I then tried reassigning the wake function the volume keys and this didn't work either.
Is there a solution to this or do I just have to put up with this massive failing of an otherwise decent phone?
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can't you get a pouch? you think only about your power button. you never thought about the screen and the phone's body itself. one day you might take it out from your pocket and find the screen crack or heard something break in your pocket while you are working.

Yea I would look into getting a TPU case since it is much harder to press power button and doesn't really affect size of phone.
Or one of those big bulky leather pouches that you put your phone in like for belt loops and stuff.

Unfortunately that isn't going to work. I wear some Snickers work trousers and the phone goes in the phone pocket. There isn't room for a case in there as well. Plus my phone is already big enough, and it is insured so in the unlikely event it breaks I will get a new one.

I believe they're is a app in the play store called something like tap tap app. It allowed you to bypass the power button and user can use screen to turn on device. Don't know too much about the app but came across it one day. You might want to look into trying that. Hope this helps. Best wishes update, just checked the app and yes it definitely does control screen off and on. I think this could be the solution your looking for!
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realsis said:
I believe they're is a app in the play store called something like tap tap app. It allowed you to bypass the power button and user can use screen to turn on device. Don't know too much about the app but came across it one day. You might want to look into trying that. Hope this helps. Best wishes update, just checked the app and yes it definitely does control screen off and on. I think this could be the solution your looking for!
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Doesn't disable the power button.

Screen randomly turns off but phone still on, backlight often stays on

Hey guys, i'll try to explain the situation as best i can below, hopefully someone can work out what is wrong.
My phone is about 16 months old. About 2 months ago i dropped it twice within the space of a couple weeks. There were a few cracks along the screen, however it wasn't very noticeable and i wasn't going to bother having it fixed. The problem started a couple of weeks ago when i went to grab it out of my pocket, however i found out the screen was black and it wouldn't turn on. I don't really know how to describe it but it was acting very strange...
- The screen would have white/gray bars all over it then turn off, then it would do the same with very thin vertical lines that were white/gray/other colours...
- When i get the screen on, it generally turns off again within 30 seconds, however it can stay on for a few minutes.
- If the screen is on and i press the lock button, it almost certainly won't come back on.
- Restarting the phone or holding the power and volume button nearly always gets the screen to come back on. It often then restarts but turns off again shortly after.
- The phone is otherwise still working when the screen goes off; the notification light stays on and i hear messages etc coming through
- The backlight often stays lit, revealing a gray screen opposed from total black. Sometimes it does not stay lit however.
- When the screen came on it was often unresponsive to touch
I had the screen replaced yesterday by a phone repair shop and the phone is still not right. I have factory reset the phone and also wiped the partition cache. Other than that it is still not working. IT seems to be working better... The screen always seems responsive to touch when it is on, and it doesn't seem to be turning off as often. It generally starts up and works fine when i start up by holding the power button and down volume button together... However even still it sometimes just flashes up with a few thick white/gray and black lines on the screen..
Does anyone know what can be causing this and how i can resolve it? If you need any more information please let me know and i will try provide it. I could try get some pictures of what the screen is doing when i finish work. Thanks guys, i appreciate any input.
EDIT: I managed to get a pic of what i mean by the thin vertical lines all over the screen. This just appeared when i tried to restart the phone after it the screen had once again stopped working. The imgur link is gIFMGD6

Anyone have any ideas?

Hey, did you ever figure this problem out? My phone just started doing the same thing. Can't find much info about it.

angrysammich said:
Hey, did you ever figure this problem out? My phone just started doing the same thing. Can't find much info about it.
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Yeah, i had the screen fixed hoping it would fix it, however that didn't work. Turns out it was the motherboard, don't know what was wrong with it in particular other than it was simply going faulty. Had someone replace the motherboard on it for $50 and have had zero problems since! Hope that helps you.

Thanks for the response. I tried replacing the screen too with no luck. Unfortunately the same place that replaced the screen said it would cost $400 to replace the motherboard!!! The phone cost less than that so it looks like I'm gonna buy a new one.
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Yeah, i had the screen fixed hoping it would fix it, however that didn't work. Turns out it was the motherboard, don't know what was wrong with it in particular other than it was simply going faulty. Had someone replace the motherboard on it for $50 and have had zero problems since! Hope that helps you.
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Nexus 5 really weird screen problem

Hi,
I have this really weird stuff going on with my Nexus 5 screen. I cracked it a couple months ago and bought a legit replacement screen for it and installed it myself (glass, lcd and frame). I fixed it with good instructions and it worked properly for two months. However though, now when I take it out of a pocket and try to turn screen on, sometimes it just doesn't light up. It's still on and every button works but the screen doesn't turn on. I have to give it a light tap or two on the back in order to make it light up again. Same thing happens sometimes when I'm using the phone normally, the screen just goes black and goes on after tapping it couple of times. Otherwise the phone works normally like it did when I bought it two years ago and after running couple of tests with screen, everything seems to work from touch interface to the graphics card.
Tried looking it up, no results.
I've noticed that the front camera doesn't work for some reason (probably just broken) and the battery lasts in use only 2-4 hours which isn't that much of an issue since I'm looking for a new phone. I just want this one to last long enough till I buy a new one.

It comes up when tapping the screen or power button? It could be a power button issue.

The screen comes back on when tapping the screen or the back of the phone. The power button isn't the issue. The screen just goes black but nothing else happens. It doesn't turn off or go to sleep mode.

Strange issue. I've never experienced it and any problems I had were related to the power button.
Could it be a loose connection inside the phone? Maybe an issue related to the proximity sensor?

Thats actually what I've thought. I have checked the phone's insides twice and didn't see loose connections, and the problem feels like it's related to proximity sensor since the screen going black happens exactly same way that when calling someone or doing something else where proximity sensor shuts the screen. It's really weird though...

Huh, I took backplate off and unscrewed the motherboard cover and took everything apart and rebuilt it and now the problem is gone. Seems like there was just some bad connection somewhere.

Glad you got it to work without having to pay someone to fix it