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Captivate with soft button issues.

Hey guys I'm posting today because I have a little problem or a huge problem I should say at this point. Anyways, I've owned a Captivate since they first came out a couple months ago. I've never had any problems with mine up until about 2 or 3 months ago when the phone started doing something weird. The bottom row of soft buttons on the phone will press themselves. Now only the back button and home button press themselves. The problem started out around the time I flashed Serendipity for the first time (not blaming the rom) I noticed the buttons would press themselves randomly at times and it started out slow, maybe once or twice a day and it didn't really annoy me. Flash forward to today and my phone is practically unusable because of this problem. Any time I wake the device from sleep the home and back buttons will rapidly press themselves over and over and over until I furiously tap either button to get the buttons to stop pressing themselves.
The problem will restart itself about 30 seconds after stopping it and It never stops. I've tried numerous re-flashes with no avail. At first I thought the problem was caused by a bad flash on my part because the problem started after I had just flashed a new rom. But I've known for a while now that wasn't the case. I've never dropped this phone or submerged it in water. This problem just popped up out of the blue one day and never went away.
Do I have a defective phone?
Thanks for the help.

Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.

how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.

whiteguypl said:
Had the same problem, not to the extent your having more like once an hour they would go crazy. Placed the phone in some rice over night and the problem was gone. Im pretty sure, for me at least, was condensation had worked its way under the glass and was causing contact problems. Worth a shot for you. Never had the problem again after that.
I never even found out how it happened, though I suspect the steam from a hot shower did it.
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I'll try the rice thing, can't believe I've never thought of that. I've never dropped water on the phone but it has been in the bathroom with me when I've taken showers or what not. Thanks for the idea.
TRusselo said:
how is your gps? if it sucks, go for warranty while you can, samsung has a 1 year warranty cross your fingers for a better replacement, or if you go through Att and you get a refurb who knows..... the board inside wont match the date under the battery and who knows how it will work.
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My GPS does indeed suck, It takes about 5-10 minutes to get a lock on anything sitting outside. My phones still under warranty until this November so I think if I don't solve the problem soon I'll just get a new one.
Does ATT upgrade the phone to a newer version if you replace it with the warranty? I might hold out until ATT releases the Cappy 4g or whatever they're going to call it.

Is this how it starts?

Bad day today. This morning started out with a very difficult time getting the screen to work. Everything took 2-3 touches. Some things I had to give up on. This lasted all day. A short while ago I was reading some pages and it got so bad I just pulled out my tablet. 10 minutes latter I grabbed the phone and it would not activate...just a black screen. Battery pull required. I recalled reading about black screens of death.
Is this part of a normal pattern of quality decline I'm seeing? Ill keep an eye on it for a few days, I have a 30 day remorse period.
Thoughts, suggestions, words of wisdom? Just don't say root..won't root in the remorse period.

alodar1 said:
Bad day today. This morning started out with a very difficult time getting the screen to work. Everything took 2-3 touches. Some things I had to give up on. This lasted all day. A short while ago I was reading some pages and it got so bad I just pulled out my tablet. 10 minutes latter I grabbed the phone and it would not activate...just a black screen. Battery pull required. I recalled reading about black screens of death.
Is this part of a normal pattern of quality decline I'm seeing? Ill keep an eye on it for a few days, I have a 30 day remorse period.
Thoughts, suggestions, words of wisdom? Just don't say root..won't root in the remorse period.
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Ummm.....
Rom?
Kernel?
Uv?
Profiles?
Oops didnt finish reading post. Root!
G2X

Sotty to say this mine does this.
Are you using auto brightness?
That's when my phone acts funny and don't want to wake up.
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
Sotty to say this mine does this.
Are you using auto brightness?
That's when my phone acts funny and don't want to wake up.
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Everything is stock out of the box. If auto bright is selected by default then yes.
What timing for this to occur. My sensation just arrived in Seattle for delivery tomorrow. Was hoping for an honest comparison.

when i first bought the phone, the screen felt insensitive too, also 2-3 touch, especially that "touch android" in the beginning to set it up. It was ridiculous for first impression
But hey, i rooted it and flashed it with a rom & kernel so everythings all good

If it helps the first g2x I got 420 I didn't root and it wouldn't turn of after a week .. rooted replacement with faux and now its been good
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Sounds like after awhile the phone starts to misbehave on stock everything. I have seen other ppl complain having same issues while on stock.
I had a my phone getting hot and it rebooted after that and then apn would not stick. I'm glad I had apn backed up so it wasn't much of a problem.
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Well my sensation arrived this morning at 1113. Its now 137 and its still not running. Apparently are still downloading. On the G2x, same apparently 20 minutes tops.
First thoughts after that, sensation is only a few fractions wider. Side by side no wifi, g2x pulls 2 bars 4g. Sensation 2bars 2g.
Screen comparison ...toss up..both look good...better? ?? They are different...
Scrolling is different. G2x is smooth uni page, a continuous page action. Sensation is page by page.
So far I'm leaning strongly towards g2x...except for that touch screen worry. That plays very heavy here. With no fix in sight, g2x would go back. But I've got 30 days
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Just perform a factory reset or reflash your rom and kernel to fix the black screen issue. Mine started doing it and that fixed it. Everytime I tried to unlock the screen it went black but was still on technically cuz I could unlock and open apps. I had to hit the unlock button and have mg finger on the screen already to keep it from going off, then I could unlock it.

JHaste said:
Just perform a factory reset or reflash your rom and kernel to fix the black screen issue. Mine started doing it and that fixed it. Everytime I tried to unlock the screen it went black but was still on technically cuz I could unlock and open apps. I had to hit the unlock button and have mg finger on the screen already to keep it from going off, then I could unlock it.
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hes all stock but yea he could do a factory reset of stock rom i dont really see it doing anything unless there is a corrupt app and the way to fix that is factory reset then when it says restore backup data you uncheck it, this way it doesnt restore anything or any app that was corrupt and then start fresh one app at a time, and keep it on for a few days then if its good add another app. thats the real way to find out, it is tedious and time consuming but it u will find out what it is. but... after the remorse period he could add throw on another rom and kernel that solved my issue with sleep of death issues on stock

With stock there is a bug where it is always in engineering mode or something like that. There is a patch available in the development section, but don't remember if root is needed to apply it. How long since you last shut the phone off? If I remember right, that bug would cause everything to slow down really bad after a couple days. Try rebooting once a day and see if this issue comes back. If that works, you may be able to get by until you are willing to root.

jsapp said:
With stock there is a bug where it is always in engineering mode or something like that. There is a patch available in the development section, but don't remember if root is needed to apply it. How long since you last shut the phone off? If I remember right, that bug would cause everything to slow down really bad after a couple days. Try rebooting once a day and see if this issue comes back. If that works, you may be able to get by until you are willing to root.
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Yes root is required because it requires ClockWorkMod to flash it.
This is why the phone boots up so quick out of the box because it doesn't preload anything but this causes it to become overloaded and run out of memory after some use and locks up.
The LG O2x had the same issues.
Stock REQUIRES the patch to function properly. Or just flash CM7 and enjoy the wealth of great features.

player911 said:
Yes root is required because it requires ClockWorkMod to flash it.
This is why the phone boots up so quick out of the box because it doesn't preload anything but this causes it to become overloaded and run out of memory after some use and locks up.
The LG O2x had the same issues.
Stock REQUIRES the patch to function properly. Or just flash CM7 and enjoy the wealth of great features.
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My thinking...and pardon the train of thought....if something out of the box is broke...like this....then...rooting it still leaves me with a device that had to be fixed...by me. I had 10 days of no issues with the G2x. I ordered and received the Sensation only because my son has one...and its nice. I have 30 days to try them out. I wanted to test them side by side....for basic comparison, the way I use a phone. Once I decide which one to keep, then root will most likely follow. But rooting to be able to compare side by side....misses the point of the comparison.
3 hrs after starting the setup on the Sensation...the battery is charged and everything is setup to test. One of the first, less obvious things I noticed on the Sensation is the multi tasking....running things like restore and browsing at the same time...is way slower than the G2x. It took 90 minutes to download the apps from backup....on the Sensation....the G2x is maybe 20 minutes. That couldn't be right and I tried it again. Still a long time. Finally I tried it again..and just let the phone sit...didn't do anything else....it downloaded just like the G2x.
When considering which phone, do I think about that slowness...in comparison to say....the Touch problems, Black screen problems....and reported rebooting....sure...thats why I'm testing them side by side.

alodar1 said:
My thinking...and pardon the train of thought....if something out of the box is broke...like this....then...rooting it still leaves me with a device that had to be fixed...by me. I had 10 days of no issues with the G2x. I ordered and received the Sensation only because my son has one...and its nice. I have 30 days to try them out. I wanted to test them side by side....for basic comparison, the way I use a phone. Once I decide which one to keep, then root will most likely follow. But rooting to be able to compare side by side....misses the point of the comparison.
3 hrs after starting the setup on the Sensation...the battery is charged and everything is setup to test. One of the first, less obvious things I noticed on the Sensation is the multi tasking....running things like restore and browsing at the same time...is way slower than the G2x. It took 90 minutes to download the apps from backup....on the Sensation....the G2x is maybe 20 minutes. That couldn't be right and I tried it again. Still a long time. Finally I tried it again..and just let the phone sit...didn't do anything else....it downloaded just like the G2x.
When considering which phone, do I think about that slowness...in comparison to say....the Touch problems, Black screen problems....and reported rebooting....sure...thats why I'm testing them side by side.
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And, as I'm sitting here....the G2x just did its first reboot. this kind of tells me...well... lets wait a week....and see.

[Q] Phone Dead Zones

After use for a period of time my screen will start to create these dead spots and it prevents the phone from detecting my finger in that specific area how can i fix this without restarting my phone everytime this occurs?

I have this issue also, however it is very uncommon for me and simply locking the screen and unlocking it has resolved the issue.

Natic256 said:
After use for a period of time my screen will start to create these dead spots and it prevents the phone from detecting my finger in that specific area how can i fix this without restarting my phone everytime this occurs?
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Wulamoc said:
I have this issue also, however it is very uncommon for me and simply locking the screen and unlocking it has resolved the issue.
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Natic, your problem is common and known since gingerbread i believe. Wulamoc is correct, the easiest fix is just cycle your screen on/off with the power button as described.

hello,
i've also been having issues with "dead spots" on my Inspire's touch screen. it's about 1 centimeter wide and runs down the entire left side of the touchscreen. it pretty much renders typing in portrait mode useless because my E, S, & Z keys cannot be pressed because they are in the dead zone. luckily i can still type in landscape so it isn't too bad.
what is really weird is when i use the phone normally and i swipe over the dead spot the screen jumps because it's not registering over that small area. BUT when i swipe my finger across the dead zone REALLY fast back and forth, the touches register! i've tested this using an app from the Play Store called "Touch Test".
Just so you know i have rooted my phone and flashed a few ROMs already, i've seen in other posts that this sometimes happens on certain ROMs but the dead spots are usually alleviated with a reboot, turning the screen off, turning the device into landscape mode or as a last resort wiping the device. I've tried all of those and to no avail. i've used CM7 and aospX, but the problem started when i was on CM7.
i'm hoping that this is just something to do with software and i may be able to fix it myself without taking the phone apart and replacing anything. i don't have the dexterity for that i am already out of warranty and none of the current phones on AT&T interest me at the moment so i wanted to make this phone last as long as i could..
any type of advice on how i could fix this would be appreciated..
thanks in advance
-dylan

dylando808 said:
hello,
i've also been having issues with "dead spots" on my Inspire's touch screen. it's about 1 centimeter wide and runs down the entire left side of the touchscreen. it pretty much renders typing in portrait mode useless because my E, S, & Z keys cannot be pressed because they are in the dead zone. luckily i can still type in landscape so it isn't too bad.
what is really weird is when i use the phone normally and i swipe over the dead spot the screen jumps because it's not registering over that small area. BUT when i swipe my finger across the dead zone REALLY fast back and forth, the touches register! i've tested this using an app from the Play Store called "Touch Test".
Just so you know i have rooted my phone and flashed a few ROMs already, i've seen in other posts that this sometimes happens on certain ROMs but the dead spots are usually alleviated with a reboot, turning the screen off, turning the device into landscape mode or as a last resort wiping the device. I've tried all of those and to no avail. i've used CM7 and aospX, but the problem started when i was on CM7.
i'm hoping that this is just something to do with software and i may be able to fix it myself without taking the phone apart and replacing anything. i don't have the dexterity for that i am already out of warranty and none of the current phones on AT&T interest me at the moment so i wanted to make this phone last as long as i could..
any type of advice on how i could fix this would be appreciated..
thanks in advance
-dylan
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I'd say that the part where you're in luck is that a lot of people are always after the new thing. You should start seeing Inspires on eBay and Craigslist at an awesome discount. Good luck to you, I'm in the same boat, I honestly can't see moving away from the Inspire until AT LEAST upgrade time.

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
I'd say that the part where you're in luck is that a lot of people are always after the new thing. You should start seeing Inspires on eBay and Craigslist at an awesome discount. Good luck to you, I'm in the same boat, I honestly can't see moving away from the Inspire until AT LEAST upgrade time.
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Don't laugh, I still have my LG eXpo.
OK, you can laugh.
Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
I'd say that the part where you're in luck is that a lot of people are always after the new thing. You should start seeing Inspires on eBay and Craigslist at an awesome discount. Good luck to you, I'm in the same boat, I honestly can't see moving away from the Inspire until AT LEAST upgrade time.
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I have been contemplating getting another inspire. But I did want to spend as little money as possible. (I'm very cheap lol) but it's probably ly my best choice :/
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dylando808 said:
I have been contemplating getting another inspire. But I did want to spend as little money as possible. (I'm very cheap lol) but it's probably ly my best choice :/
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You won't find a better at&t phone for what the inspire goes for. Replacing the screen could be cheaper but then again you might destroy it. You could sell it on eBay as a fixer and put what you get toward a working replacement.
Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.

biglittlegato said:
You won't find a better at&t phone for what the inspire goes for. Replacing the screen could be cheaper but then again you might destroy it. You could sell it on eBay as a fixer and put what you get toward a working replacement.
Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.
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Replacing it myself isn't an option for me. I am almost certain that doing that will end up with disaster. I was hoping it was a software fix, where wiping the phone or factory resetting would work.. But if all else fails I could tough it out and wait for the AT&T One XL..
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Touchscreen stopped working after soft brick...

Ok..
I had this phone for a while and I started using it again recently. I have fully replaced the digitizer/lcd bezel before with no problems (been a phone repair tech for 10 years) And it has worked fine.
The other night I reverted it back to stock because it seems to be the only way to get a constant data signal. Worked fine. I then updated it to the newest OTA update without a problem.
I then rebooted it and it stuck on a black screen loop with the buttons going on and off for hours. I spent 7 hours trying to figure out what was wrong, flashing, re flashing.. Nothing. Finally I get CWM recovery installed and find out my SD card is fried. So I put a new one in, and transfer over the roms I want t flash. 3 different roms, all with no touch screen.
Revert back to stock, still no touch screen.
Could something have gone bad on the board to have caused this? Is there something system wise not getting wiped that may cause this? Its to much of a coincidence that the touch screen and buttons would go out after all this happened.
Any help would be appreciated. Im waiting on a new digitizer now to check because Ive already gone over all the connections. But if its something software wise, Id like to try that before doing another digitizer replacement.
Thanks

funny you made this thread. i just got my hands on a soft bricked g2x that was stuck on the blue lg logo. after a quick nvflash it boots right up......but with no touchscreen. not sure if it ever worked as im not the original owner.
but i'll be keeping my eyes out on this thread for sure!

Id give a pretty to see inside both of your phones. Sounds like a bad contact on the ribbons.or one of them may have been ripped during a screen installation. I've never heard of the screen just up and quoting working without some major stuff happening to the phone. My guess is these screens were replaced with the wrong screen.just a guess though.
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grantusmantus said:
Id give a pretty to see inside both of your phones. Sounds like a bad contact on the ribbons.or one of them may have been ripped during a screen installation. I've never heard of the screen just up and quoting working without some major stuff happening to the phone. My guess is these screens were replaced with the wrong screen.just a guess though.
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I have done phone repairs for quite a few years, It wasnt a wrong screen and has worked fine for a year since its replacement. I have already opened the phone again and made sure all contacts were fine. What Im trying to figure out is if there is maybe some part of the system/boot that holds the touchscreen drivers and they have bee erased?
Again, I find its a huge coincidence that it worked fine up until this happened then as soon as its booting again, stops working... Which is why I think its a software issue.

Try touching the corners of the screen after booting up start with the top left and go clockwise. One of the roms used to mess up the connectivity between phone and screen. And that is supposed to reset the touch screen. A old g1 trick
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Wifi Problem - freezes sometimes and cant disable. Have to restart. LP & KK

Hi guys,
I have a problem that I've never seen or heard of before. So here is the situation:
Power button didn't work, so RMA'd phone. Got different phone back and instantly rooted/installed custom rom. Didn't notice anything until a month later. My phone would randomly just lag out and the wifi would stop. It would still show connected and that there was uploading activity, but that is all. When I clicked it to disable, nothing would happened. I would have to restart the phone, disable it for a while then re-enable it. I though it was the rom so I switched. Noticed the same thing is happening. I decided to play around with my sim, so I took it out and then put it back in, and it somehow fixed the problem. So I was assuming it was the sim causing the problem. Worked perfect for a week then started happening again. I did the thing with the sim and it didn't work this time. I still have the problem now.
Basically, my wifi would just stop working, when I click on it the phone lags out and freezes. I have to restart the phone and it will work. Sometimes Itll work for a full day then all of a sudden just stop. Sometimes it happens just a few minutes after restarting. I mostly find that it happens when the battery is less than 20%. Right now I am running stock LP, locked bootloader. I was supposed to send it in but they wouldn't accept it because I was 6 days over my warranty. So I'm not sure if I was send a faulty phone and now I'm stuck with it?
LG said I would be charged $150 flat rate for them to fix it which sucks. I'd rather just get a new phone and stay away from LG in the future.
Any suggestions? Also this was happening on KK at first then I tried LP Roms and same thing. I have never flashed any radio since I got the phone, could this be a possible solution?

s.hack said:
I was supposed to send it in but they wouldn't accept it because I was 6 days over my warranty. So I'm not sure if I was send a faulty phone and now I'm stuck with it?
LG said I would be charged $150 flat rate for them to fix it which sucks. I'd rather just get a new phone and stay away from LG in the future.
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You would get the same reply from pretty much any company, once it is over the warranty period then it is over the warranty period, this is no reason to "stay away from LG". Most charge a flat rate since they're likely to simply do a motherboard/whatever board swap if the fault is to do with internal components, as it is much easier/cheaper for them to do this compared to diagnosing and repairing/replacing things individually.
s.hack said:
Any suggestions? Also this was happening on KK at first then I tried LP Roms and same thing. I have never flashed any radio since I got the phone, could this be a possible solution?
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Try a different radio version. If it doesn't change anything then you have a hardware problem.

Elluel said:
You would get the same reply from pretty much any company, once it is over the warranty period then it is over the warranty period, this is no reason to "stay away from LG". Most charge a flat rate since they're likely to simply do a motherboard/whatever board swap if the fault is to do with internal components, as it is much easier/cheaper for them to do this compared to diagnosing and repairing/replacing things individually.
Try a different radio version. If it doesn't change anything then you have a hardware problem.
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The only reason I said I would stay away is because it seems that I sent in my phone with a problem only to receive another one with a different problem. I'll try the radios tonight, hopefully it works.
Thanks, I'll keep you guys posted.

s.hack said:
The only reason I said I would stay away is because it seems that I sent in my phone with a problem only to receive another one with a different problem. I'll try the radios tonight, hopefully it works.
Thanks, I'll keep you guys posted.
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You mentioned that you only ran into issues after a month. During that month a hardware issue could have possibly developed and the device was fine when you initially received it.

Known LP bug.. Thats why i still stay with kk
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