I am looking to find out how to enable the proximity sensor. When I take my ear away from the handset (e.g. calling a call sensor), it isnt detecting it. I therefore need to press the power button to wake the screen.
Any ideas?
Cheers
aidanbree said:
I am looking to find out how to enable the proximity sensor. When I take my ear away from the handset (e.g. calling a call sensor), it isnt detecting it. I therefore need to press the power button to wake the screen.
Any ideas?
Cheers
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If you hold your thumb/finger over the top of the screen to the left of the HTC logo, do you find that the buttons light?
Just a thought here, but isn't this the feature of the light sensor? There are two of them in that particular area....
Dr.Romca said:
Just a thought here, but isn't this the feature of the light sensor? There are two of them in that particular area....
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Opps, my bad, you're right I'm confusing the two...
Although I don't believe that I've seen any settings that dictate whether the proximity sensor is on or off, on my device it just worked out of the box, switching screen off during call when phone is lifted to ear and back on automatically when pulled away
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Is anyone having issues with the Tbolt hanging up by shifting the phone around during a call? This is getting frustrating as its happening a lot. I'm using BAMF 1.6.3.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Eric
Yes...methinks it has something to do with the proximity sensor?
Under sound settings, try unchecking "flip for speaker". It may be too sensative.
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zander06 said:
Yes...methinks it has something to do with the proximity sensor?
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My proximity sensor is horrible.
so no solutions?
pnd4pnd said:
so no solutions?
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None that I know of yet. It is the proximity sensor, as my bolt is also plagued by this issue. Hopefully someone will take the time to adjust the sensitivity of it in a ROM so that it doesn't wake up the phone so easily while on a call.
I have that same issue. I got in the habit of hitting the home button before I put the phone up to my face. By the time I end the call, my browser or something is opened, but at least I don't hang up on the person I'm talking to.
Another solution: after the call comes in and you answer, just hit the power button. The screen will turn off (and won't turn back on until you hit the power button again).
I saw another thread about this. Someone said that lint gets into the speaker grill and messes with the sensor. Just lightly blow onto the grill to get the lint out of the way. I had issues with the screen not turning off when I put the phone to my face. This solved my issue... for now.
I hate to create a new thread for this, but creating as it didn't get the right attention in the bugs thread.
My Infuse backlight doesn't respond(on or off) to the proximity sensor when I am on a call. The backlight goes off after the preset time of 30 secs in the settings. But the light doesn't come on when I move my ear away from the phone. I have to press the power button to turn the backlight on to end the call. Proximity sensor it self works fine. Tested by covering the sensor with my finger, all the buttons are disabled even when the light is on.
Is there a way to fix this? I never had this issue with any of my Andriod phones before including the latest Inspire & Atrix.
Is this a bug with this firmware or just my Infuse issue?
Can someone please check this?
rapidstar said:
I hate to create a new thread for this, but creating as it didn't get the right attention in the bugs thread.
My Infuse backlight doesn't respond(on or off) to the proximity sensor when I am on a call. The backlight goes off after the preset time of 30 secs in the settings. But the light doesn't come on when I move my ear away from the phone. I have to press the power button to turn the backlight on to end the call. Proximity sensor it self works fine. Tested by covering the sensor with my finger, all the buttons are disabled even when the light is on.
Is there a way to fix this? I never had this issue with any of my Andriod phones before including the latest Inspire & Atrix.
Is this a bug with this firmware or just my Infuse issue?
Can someone please check this?
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My backlight responds immediately after I pull the phone away from my face. The light turns on about the same time that I pull the phone back infront of me. The problem may be uncommon, or unique to your phone.
bragOS said:
My backlight responds immediately after I pull the phone away from my face. The light turns on about the same time that I pull the phone back infront of me. The problem may be uncommon, or unique to your phone.
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+1. I, thankfully, haven't had any problems with the proximity sensor on my Infuse either.
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rapidstar said:
I hate to create a new thread for this, but creating as it didn't get the right attention in the bugs thread.
My Infuse backlight doesn't respond(on or off) to the proximity sensor when I am on a call. The backlight goes off after the preset time of 30 secs in the settings. But the light doesn't come on when I move my ear away from the phone. I have to press the power button to turn the backlight on to end the call. Proximity sensor it self works fine. Tested by covering the sensor with my finger, all the buttons are disabled even when the light is on.
Is there a way to fix this? I never had this issue with any of my Andriod phones before including the latest Inspire & Atrix.
Is this a bug with this firmware or just my Infuse issue?
Can someone please check this?
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If you answer an incoming call from a previously screen locked state the backlight does not come back on. It goes back into a screen off locked state.
If you initiate the call from an unlocked screen state, when the call ends the backlight fires up.
Thanks everyone for your response. My phone was defective, got it exchanged at the at&t store this morning & the new one is working fine!
Thank god for the carrier support!
I think I may have this same issue.
As a side note, if my phone is on speaker, and I am talking, then the other person ends the call, shouldn't my phone give some indication? Either a vibrate, a light or something?
knight4led said:
I think I may have this same issue.
As a side note, if my phone is on speaker, and I am talking, then the other person ends the call, shouldn't my phone give some indication? Either a vibrate, a light or something?
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Yes, the backlight should come on. You might want to exchange it.
My works perfect..
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how to disable light sensor for optimus 3d?
You mean the light sensor that controls the brightness of your screen or the light sensor that detects when you are in a call and turns off the screen?
I'm pretty sure you can disable the first one by just turning off Auto Brightness. The second one can't be disabled as far as I know.
bioweb said:
light sensor that detects when you are in a call and turns off the screen?
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isn't that a proximity sensor?
There is a light sensor and a proximity sensor
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mmace said:
isn't that a proximity sensor?
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Well, I was also wondering because when you turn the phone in talking position but away from your ear the screen is still on, when you get close to the ear the screen get off right away...
Can you change the delay on the proximity sensor at all? When I move the phone away from my head it takes a good few seconds for the screen to come back on meaning it takes me about 5-6 seconds at least before I can hit the end call button.
The lights for my three softkeys don't always turn on, unless i cover the front cam/light sensor with my finger. any way to fix this so that the backlight turns on when i'm using the phone?
usmelllikecheez said:
The lights for my three softkeys don't always turn on, unless i cover the front cam/light sensor with my finger. any way to fix this so that the backlight turns on when i'm using the phone?
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its automatic with light sensor
yeah, i get that...
but, i'm sitting in complete darkness right now, and the soft key lights aren't coming on. the only way it does is if i cover the front camera with my finger.
does that mean it's faulty? or is there something i can do to make the lights come on when they're supposed to?
Mine are hit or miss. Most of the time I find myself covering the sensor like you said. Didn't see an option to adjust sensitivity or anything. Pretty lame.
I noticed this too. They should make settings option to be selected by user...miss the perfection of the NEXUS one
usmelllikecheez said:
yeah, i get that...
but, i'm sitting in complete darkness right now, and the soft key lights aren't coming on. the only way it does is if i cover the front camera with my finger.
does that mean it's faulty? or is there something i can do to make the lights come on when they're supposed to?
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I think it is faulty, my key light is on whenever the surrounding light condition is poor. Don't think there is a setting for this but I might miss something here.
Bottom line, if you fully checked the setting cannot find anything, just exchange it.
Mine also seem to be inconsistent. Sometimes they come on immediately (like they should), sometimes I have to open an app, and sometimes they won't come on at all.
One wacky theory that I have is that the sensor is getting tricked by the reflection of the screen from my glasses. It may be in my head, but I feel like the issue comes up less when I am wearing contacts.
Maybe a solution
Have you tried this one? I did on my cm9-ed U8160, maybe it works on your devices too.
Mine are perfect, never have to cover the proximity sensor. Probably just a thing with different batches of devices. Got mine early summer around June.
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When I make a call. The screen goes off instantly and I can't turn the screen back on right away. i have to press power button several times to turn the screen on. When I'm nit in call, I have ni problem. May be something is wrong with my proximity sensor? Or it is a software probelm? Anyone else having the same problem?
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When I make a call. The screen goes off instantly and I can't turn the screen back on right away. i have to press power button several times to turn the screen on. When I'm nit in call, I have ni problem. May be something is wrong with my proximity sensor? Or it is a software probelm? Anyone else having the same problem?
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Is your hand anywhere near the top of the phone? there is a proximity sensor that shuts the screen off if it thinks a face is near it (or a hand confused with a face)
@work said:
Is your hand anywhere near the top of the phone? there is a proximity sensor that shuts the screen off if it thinks a face is near it (or a hand confused with a face)
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Not really.
The sensor is covered by the screen protector. Could that be the reason?