Hey,
I've been flashing roms to my Nexus S (Rogers) since I got it last May. All 2.3 stuff (Usually NSCollab) until the last month or so, when I started playing with ICS. This seems to be an issue only with the ICS roms I've flashed - thought admittedly, I've only tryad Cyanogen and Nexus MV (Cyanogen-based)
It seems my search key gets "stuck" from time to time. Sometimes, it acts as though I'm long-pressing it... other time like I'm tapping it repeatedly. When this happens, the touch-screen still reacts normally (I can pull down the drawer, type messages in and so on) - but I can't tap back or home or the menu key. Usually (though not always), putting it to sleep for 10 seconds or so will fix this.
Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? Maybe something to try troubleshooting that I haven't thought of?
Thanks
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Hey,
So after having browbeating my phone for 1½ years (and recently started bragging about it) something major has finally happened. Shouldn't have jinxed it.
Basically, it pushes buttons in random order. The things that happen (and can start to happen all the time, even before I enter my PIN):
Volume going up
Volume going down
Connection manager opens
Camera turns on
Switches between modes while in camera (panorama, burst etc)
I'm unable to try out if I can access connection manager and camera through volume up/down, but if that's possible then I'd say it's a problem with the volume up and down buttons on the side.
Also: I've lost all connection what so ever with my operator.
I recently flashed to Energy Phoenix 2.0 feb 26th build - Sense 2.1 21892 and it worked as normal for 1½ week. Then today I received a text, and then I lost signal and all the button mashing started happening.
It drains 50% of the battery in about 2hrs, leaving me think that it's doing something even with screen off laying on my desk.
Just now I flashed to Energy Leo feb 26th build, 21892 Sense 2.5 version and it's still all weird.
Anyone know what's going on?
UPDATE: argh, clicked the wrong button and lots of text disappeared
anyway. shortly: the buttons stopped working altogether for a short while, and it stopped ****ing around. Then they started working again and the ****ing around resumed. At one point I couldn't navigate away from the volume screen because of horrendously fast changes in volume. I've tried hard-resetting, but it wants to start up the camera the moment i'm done calibrating my pen resulting in canceled "first-time-installations-scheduled-after-hard-resets", with angry red letters.
stoopid phone
I Had the same problema, but worse, i have the same problem with the keys but also now the led of the flash of camera still on
So the ligh is always on, also when the device is off, i dont know what to do because im in mexico and no many people know abaut repair this phone.
I hope anyone can help thankss
Anybody experiencing the "quick search" box coming up at random. I've had this issue since flashing to JH7 (both the unofficial samfirmwares version and 'real' version).
It literally goes crazy, goes to the quick search screen and blinks like 5 times, then stays on the quick search screen, until i press back.
I had this problem with the home button on JF6 and it went away in JH3 but now appears to be back for me in JH7
Ever since I left stock my search screen randomly pops up. I truly can't find a pattern. I used to think I was accidentally hitting it but I've seen the search screen pop up while the phone was just sitting there while plugged into the computer.
I've gone days without it happening and I've seen it happen multiple times within a day. It's very odd and bothersome!
I have the problem as well and I'm not rooted so I think its just a issue with or without root
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I think it's a hardware issue.
First phone I got, has this problem with "home" button, sometimes 10-15 times/minute. Changed after 2 weeks, home button is fine but "search" button coming up at random, and also has random shut down issue (4 shut downs within a hour). Changed again, now this phone is perfect, no shut down anymore, no search button issue.
BTW, all three phones run stock rom, not rooted, update to JH7 yesterday and so far no problem at all.
i'm the OP, and now it happens less than it was before. haven't changed ROMs--been running Cog 2.2 Beta 7, but this has been happening ever since JH7.
i notice it gets super crazy when using the stock browser. what i've done is seriously press it manually very hard when it happens, until it goes to voice search. then do it again and again. thinking maybe the button is stuck down there.
Over this past week the back light for my Nexus S 4G appears to randomly shut off. Right now it has happened about 5 times and when I need to use it right then, preventing me from just stopping to investigate what may be causing this. The screen still comes on allowing me to quickly unlock using the pattern and then restart by holding down the power button. The one time I was able to investigate a little I was navigating into the settings menu when the screen just went blank. I pressed the power button a few times and could see the hardware buttons below lighting up as if the screen was on but that was it.
I'm currently running Slim Bean (Android 4.2.1) Beta and will be trying another rom but wanted to see if anyone else may have encountered this issue before I bring it up with that thread.
Yeah experienced this too in most 4.2 ROMs that I've tried. Some people say it's a bug with the auto- brightness settings but I don't buy it since I don't really use auto-brightness but still get the error. I'm back to 4.1.2
Glad to hear. I was becoming worried I had some hardware that was failing.
I will turn auto brightness off and see how it goes.
Thank you
So it has happened quite a bit since my last post. Even with auto-brightness turned off. I'm blaming this bug for my alarm not continuing after I snoozed it a few times. (I know they are unrelated but its just really annoying).
It happened again about ten minutes ago and I managed to output a bug report feature on 4.2.1. Not sure if it is of any use to anyone. Message me if you would like it.
So at first I thought the issues I am going to mention were related to the ROM, but after various flashes and really considering if they were related to Apps I have installed, I think it's the device.
Home Button - After my phone has been on for about 1/2 a day or so, I can no longer use the home button as normal. Each click acts like a long press. I also notice when this is happening some screen clicks are like a long press. If I go into the gallery app, I cant open the folders, it tries to 'Select' them as if I were going to mass delete them.
Brightness - I never use Auto Brightness and usually set my screen to Max but ill be damned if my screen doesn't somehow always go to minimum power a few times throughout the day. It can be difficult to change in the bright Phoenix days when power is set to minimum.
Any ideas? I don't use any cases that might be depressing buttons or anything like that. I do have a screen protector, but Ive used this vendor for years.
Thanks
MoreGone said:
Home Button - After my phone has been on for about 1/2 a day or so, I can no longer use the home button as normal. Each click acts like a long press.
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What ROM are you using? I've got the same problem with the home button acting as a long press. This behavior started when I moved to a 4.2 based ROM - first CM 10.1 and now AOKP JB MR1 B5. It's really obnoxious. Not sure if it's the hardware or software since it goes away when I reboot. I'm also not using any case or screen protector.
I might try downgrading to a 4.1 ROM to see if it really is something in 4.2 or the hardware. Been hesitant to do so thanks to 4.2 moving everything on the SD card to the /data/media/0/ directory. (Can't post a link, Google 'android 4.2 0 folder')
Curious to hear if anyone else is having this issue?
Update: Should have searched Google before searching XDA! It is a known issue that was fixed 4 days after CM 10.1 M2. Google for 'CYAN-283' to find the ticket. Can't wait for M3 to come out so this can be resolved!
Hey everyone, I'm a fairly new OPO user myself here as well; I received mine back in early-mid October, and have had it since then.
But oddly enough, for the past two weeks or so, the following issues have surfaced and has become more frequent, and prominent than ever. For all the fellow OPO-users out there, I was wondering if anyone else has come across the same issue(s) that I've been going through... Unfortunately I really haven't had the time to look up any solution methods and whatnot with two young'uns whom are extremely demanding of my presence... All. The. Time.
So I thought that if I compiled my little list here, hopefully some kind soul will reach out to me with answers (or at least, the direction to where I could find those answers) and make my day just -that- much lighter.
Now just to mention the main points : NO, I have NOT rooted my phone, and YES, I DID install the OTA update, and currently my CM version is the 11.0-XNPH38R.
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a) sometimes, my OPO screen will absolutely REFUSE to turn back on, after I've put the phone to sleep. nothing i do can get the screen to turn back on again - unless it decides it finally wants to. (it's got a mind of its own, this thing... and it's just as stubborn as I am. UGH.) i try double-tapping the screen several times (i've turned that feature on) and i try pressing the power/wake button, or holding it down, ... but zilch. this will usually last up to 10~15 minutes. (after 5~10 minutes of trying to bring it back to life, I just give up and let it be.) when the screen DOES end up turning back on, it's either flashing the "power off/reboot/accessibility" menu several times (probably from me trying to mess with the physical power/wake button) then finally respond to my 'backspace' on-screen keys, or the home icon, returning me back to the proper lockscreen it's supposed to show. ANOTHER way it ends up FINALLY responding, is that the phone will vibrate in short sequences of two, maybe three times and then it will initiate the rebooting process. then everything starts working fine again. i don't recall having ever done anything to trigger something like this to happen, either...
b) the keyboard (the stock Android keyboard) randomly will NOT work; by that I mean, when I am in a messaging app, or any other app that requires a person to TYPE WORDS ON, the keyboard DOES show up, (along with the suggestive bar just above it) and when I try to type, all the usual things will occur; the letter I happen to press will pop-up in response to my tap, and in the suggestive word bar above, it will start showing me the possible word combinations possible based on the sequence of the letters I type, but nowhere do I actually SEE on the SCREEN/message bar/etc. any letters or characters popping up. this issue too, will happen out of nowhere and will last about 15~20 minutes as well. usually what fixes the problem (as annoying as it is) is if I shut down/turn on, then reboot the phone a couple of times to get the keyboard to actually start working again. but there MUST be an easier method to fix this (and all my other issues) !
c) the stock camera app; this issue actually started occurring within days - just under a week of actually getting the shipment of the phone to my place. I was testing out the camera functions, the usual, then suddenly, I would get booted out of the app, and a message saying "The Camera cannot be used at this time" will pop-up as a result. (although, what was even STRANGER, was for a while, (for about 2-3 days) I was receiving a totally different message that didn't even make any SENSE: it said something along the lines of "the camera could not be connected to the device at this time" or "the camera has been disconnected from the device"... i don't even know HOW a camera can "disconnect" itself from the phone, but apparently it CAN.) with this issue, there was absolutely NOTHING I could do to start making it work again. it was non-functional for three, four days straight (no word of a lie) then just for the hell of it, I decided to open the camera app again, and boom, it was working. that didn't last long, though... then suddenly after opening the camera, there would be a prolonged black screen on the phone that wouldn't go away, and I couldn't select any options whatsoever... then when the camera finally started "working", i tried taking a picture - i thought that it would work, since nothing was indicative of it NOT working... but alas, such was not the case. when i went into gallery, to browse through the photos I had taken, they were not there at all, and the photos i had thought were taken weren't actually taken at all.
Asides from that, and some occasional (frequent) crashes while using the phone, I'm not feeling too frustrated by it. (I guess I just have an effin'-load of patience.) Still, I would greatly appreciate any thoughts or suggestions about this dilemma of mine, or providing me the key to all of the answers to these stupid bugs.
Thanks for all those who took the time to read my lengthy post. :fingers-crossed:
-- MK.