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Auto-rotate enabled but not working.

Just recently found that Auto-rotate stopped working on my Inspire. I have checked my settings multiple times and it is checked, but it will not rotate to landscape mode. I have tried it in both the browser and messages and neither one seems to work. I doesn't matter how I hold the phone it stays in portrait mode. I have also restarted and powered down the phone numerous times but to no avail. Glitch or something wrong with the phone? Should I take it back and get a replacement?

mine is doing the same thing. Really annoying when I am trying to show off the pictures, hopefully a fix is coming

I think I'm just gonna take it back to Best Buy and get a replacement since I've already dropped it and scuffed the edge. Plus I have their insurance and buy back program so I shouldn't have any hassles just swapping it out.

mindbuRn said:
Just recently found that Auto-rotate stopped working on my Inspire. I have checked my settings multiple times and it is checked, but it will not rotate to landscape mode. I have tried it in both the browser and messages and neither one seems to work. I doesn't matter how I hold the phone it stays in portrait mode. I have also restarted and powered down the phone numerous times but to no avail. Glitch or something wrong with the phone? Should I take it back and get a replacement?
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A reboot will fix the auto-rotate. This has happened to me a few times, I'm trying to figure out what app caused the lock - I think it might be Tweetdeck or Twidroid.
Shouldn't happen, I know, but a reboot will return it to working mode.

I've had the Inspire for 5 days and have the auto-rotate freeze up twice. Once was in the store when I bought it, and I think we fixed it by killing the Internet app. The second time was two days ago, and I fixed it with a restart. Seems to be a software problem, not hardware sensor problem.

Had the same thing, solved by re-calibrating sensors.
Hi there,
I had the same thing. It drove me nuts, but eventually I found the problem. I am using CM10 and in the System Settings->Advanced->Sensors I noticed that under "Use Calibration File" the small print says that after checking it you HAVE to re-calibrate. Now I don't remember actually checking that check box but I might have, since I was tweaking the device to my liking after that first install of CM10. I re-calibrated and vuala! It now works just fine.
If you are using another ROM it could be in a different menu, but find it and re-calibrate the sensors.
Hope this solves your problem too.

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[Q] display cannot be changed?

so just got my g2x in....brand new straight from tmobile and when i go into display settings I cannot edit the brightness or the screen timeout they are both dimmed and gray to me....never seen this before. Am I just missing something?

Mine aren't greyed out. I have mine set to 50% brightness and a screen timeout of 30seconds.
Did you skip the initial setup? Did you use Titanium backup?

i did setup, and let google restore apps actually. No titanium restore.

but sure enough under display those 2 options are grayed out i can click them and it vibrates but nothing happens.

did a full factory reset and still no access to those 2 options.
Any thoughts?

vapor311 said:
did a full factory reset and still no access to those 2 options.
Any thoughts?
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It's been reported as an issue. You might have to exchange.

Great, was able to adjust brightness and screen timeout just fine, until I did a factory reset, and now they are grayed out.
EDIT: Somehow it seems to be related to having a SIM card inserted

Happened to me too until I put my Sim card in.

I had to replace my phone today because of a rebooting and reset that happen on its on. Hopefully I don't have anymore problems any time soon.
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no respond from touch screen

Hi, for the past two days, I have been having issue with occassional lack of response from the touch screen. Whenever I pressed the power button for a few seconds, I got a list of options: power off, data network mode, flight mode, restart. However, there was no respond when　I touched he screen. I just pressed the power button slightly, went somewhere, tried again and the device resumed to normal. what is happening? is there a way to fix this issue without rooting ?

You are without a doubt the unluckiest user I've ever me. Is there anything on our device that does work?!
Mine does sometimes lose touch responsiveness. The pen still works, but touch does nothing. A reboot usually does the trick.

it was working nicely but suddenly I got maps has stopped, follwed by andoid system has stopped message. Then, on the past two days, lost touch screen response. Not sure if the following are related o my problems. 1. I use iBalls as protector of the corners for about a week. Yesterday, not two days ago, I joined the Japanese docom mobile phone services. They made some changes in the settings to allow me to use their 4g and wifi and phone networks. After that, I lost touch screen response more often than two days ago. Is doing a factory reset a good way to solve the problems? I recall that there were two firmware updates.

Well, if one of the corner balls touches the screen, that could kill the responsiveness.
As for the changes they made, those were probably the APN settings. They're required to use the internet and vary per provider. Pull out the SIM, see if that makes a difference.
A factory reset usually solves system errors.
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I recall that they did some APN settings. They also set up the Mail connection. Before factory reset, is backing up using keis the best way? I don't kow if keis also backup whatever that have been causing the issues.
The balls just slightly touch the corners sometimes. Do you mean if by chance more than one ball touches a corner, this could confuse the system and cause a lack of respond? Sometimes even there were lots Of battery power, the system did not wake from sleep. It was like there were no power. I had to put the device away and waited for awhile before I could use the device again.

Any backup brings the risk of backing up the issue as well.
I recommend using Helium, back up only the app data you can't live without, do the rest manually and start with a clean device.
And yes, I did notice that if something is constantly pressing the screen, it gets confused sometimes. I had it happen with (you can laugh) my cat, she had her paw on the screen, messed the whole control up.
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what kind of app data I can't live without? could you please give examples?

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what kind of app data I can't live without? could you please give examples?
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Well, what apps or games do you not want to lose the data of? Is there a game whose progress took you months to achieve, things like that.S Note and the like can all be synced through your Samsung account, by the way.

Thanks. Will Samsung's software also backup the mails from the mopera email account I got from my phone provider?
Not sure if this is related. I did not use the iBall protector yesterday and there was no problem with the touch screen's responsiveness.

petercohen said:
Thanks. Will Samsung's software also backup the mails from the mopera email account I got from my phone provider?
Not sure if this is related. I did not use the iBall protector yesterday and there was no problem with the touch screen's responsiveness.
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I don't know, I never use KIES.
Test it without the balls for a few more days, if the problem doesn't come back, you've found the culprit.
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I've had this happen to mine a couple of times, the hardware buttons still works (even the capacitative ones) but the screens refuses to do anything. The first time it happened was when a small droplet water landed on the screen, and the second time is still a mystery, but a restart solved the problem both times so I suspect it was something I did rather than any hardware issues... Having said that this hadn't happened on any other device I've owned.

Lg v10 screen fading in and out

So I am having a strange thing going on with my V10. The screen will fade in and out. Its not the brightness and I have my auto dim unchecked so before anyone says to check that it's not it.
So for instance while writing this it has done it twice and both times it dims and the keyboard goes away and it goes back to normal and I have to hit my finger somewhere somewhere so the keyboard comes back.
I have already done a Factory restart and it's still going on
It has done it a Total of 5 times now.
Please of someone knows what this is I need help.

uninstall paypal

lg v10 screen fade in&out
enzosly said:
So I am having a strange thing going on with my V10. The screen will fade in and out. Its not the brightness and I have my auto dim unchecked so before anyone says to check that it's not it.
So for instance while writing this it has done it twice and both times it dims and the keyboard goes away and it goes back to normal and I have to hit my finger somewhere somewhere so the keyboard comes back.
I have already done a Factory restart and it's still going on
It has done it a Total of 5 times now.
Please of someone knows what this is I need help.
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My unlocked v10 also did/does the screen fade in&out strange thing. I do believe its paypal and similar apps e.g. google wallet/android pay. Ive yet to soft/hard rest the phone but have uninstalled the apps a few times then reinstalled them to see what happend. Im thinking/guessing what happens is maybe its an indicator of some sort of tracking thingy im not sure but what makes me think that is if you uninstall those apps reinstall them and only log in with one account on the device it wouldnt do it but the moment i log into my wifes paypal it did the screen thingy...hmmm any input???

S7 black screen problem

Hi,
I just got this s7 for 3 days and i have this problem where the screen wont turn on but the phone still is active.
A hard boot will fix it but its only a temp fix because i had this problem 4 times now in 3 days.
I didn't root it nor did i install any weird apps outside the google play store, i disabled a couple of bloat ware apps like all microsoft apps and a few google apps like hangouts and gmail.
I did some research and found out that more people have this problem but all the fixes they got it to wipe the cache but the phone still has the problem after that so i would like to know if more people on xda have this problem and i would like to know what they did to their phone so i can see if we have anything in common to pin point the problem.

See if the setting for preventing the phone to turn on in your pocket is enabled. If so, try disabling it and see if that works. It may be a problem with the proximity sensor if it's a hardware issue.

Thanks for the reply and i have that setting indeed turned on! So ill switch if off right now and lets hope this will fix it!

Seems like turning off that feature didn't work

If you have an SD remove it or format it. I had this on kitkat because of too many files in internal memory

Think i found the problem because i think its fixed. While restoring my old settings like wifi etc from my ggole account caused this problem and now that i skipped this part in the setup the phone seems to be working now for 2 days perfectly but thanks for the reply and help.

Woot, I have fixed the problem!!!!! Its the App Power Saving Feature that causes this!!! I had some app set to "always" and when i used any of these app and then put the phone in standby then it would lock up every now and then. Now that i have turned off this setting the phone runs steady for a week!

RiTCHiE007 said:
Woot, I have fixed the problem!!!!! Its the App Power Saving Feature that causes this!!! I had some app set to "always" and when i used any of these app and then put the phone in standby then it would lock up every now and then. Now that i have turned off this setting the phone runs steady for a week!
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Is your phone still working fine without blackscreens?
I've got the same issue (sometimes 4 times in an hour, sometimes it doesn't happen for 2 days..!!).
I've tried fixing by doing a factory reset and turning app power saving mode off.
Unfortunately this did not fix the problem. Yesterday I got an unresponsive blackscreen again :crying:
Any ideas what could fix the problem?
(Ignore my signature, I'm writing about the S7, not the S6)

TomTomGo! said:
Is your phone still working fine without blackscreens?
I've got the same issue (sometimes 4 times in an hour, sometimes it doesn't happen for 2 days..!!).
I've tried fixing by doing a factory reset and turning app power saving mode off.
Unfortunately this did not fix the problem. Yesterday I got an unresponsive blackscreen again :crying:
Any ideas what could fix the problem?
(Ignore my signature, I'm writing about the S7, not the S6)
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Yea, mine is working like it should now for 3 weeks.