I have read many threads on this subject, but all of the solutions on this and many other sites, involve flashing roms. My wife's phone (SPH-L720) is rotating 180 degrees off, causing apps, photos, web pages, menus, etc. to be upside down. Her phone is stock and not rooted. Sometimes autorotation doesn't rotate at all, where it normally would. She is against rooting (she doesn't know mine is) so rooting isn't an option. Factory resetting the phone does nothing to fix the problem and recalibrating does nothing. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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Hi!
My Sensation has been experiencing some weird behaviours.
Although the rotation is locked on the rom (I tried several, all same issue), it still rotates. The only way to stop this is through the launcher options and force vertical mode.
It wakes up during the night, out of the blue. Nothing running, no processes waking it up.
Sometimes I'm browsing stuff (like this morning, browsing the TB backup list), and it kept going back like I pressed "Back" button.
Now, I tried several roms since, all same behaviour (Sense, AOSP, CM, etc..).
Used an app to test the sensors, they all seem to be responding accordingly, although I don't exclude a sensor issue, for some reason it shows normal behaviour in everything else. The rotation works properly as in, turning the way it should, but if it's locked, why it keeps rotating?
Did anyone ever experienced anything like this? I searched on google / xda, there's some odd cases here and there and either they ended up being sensor files being corrupted or uncalibrated.
Anyone care to shed a light on this?
Thank's a lot
Update: New sympthom, on Sense 3.6, it seems like Dock Mode is being called randomly too. This makes me consider a sort of loose contact or alike :S
Anyone?
Received this phone (THL W8S) 5 days ago, and straight out of the box it has had a serious issue where the phone will lock up, the screen will fade slowly to black, and then reboot itself. The problem occurs both after factory resetting AND in safe mode.
The phone is unrooted and running the stock ROM.
Basically during use, the screen suddenly becomes unresponsive to touch and the physical buttons (home, volume, power) all stop functioning. As soon as the phone locks up this way, the screen slowly fades to black over about 60 seconds, at which point I have to leave it to fade completely before it reboots itself.
It happens most frequently when using any browser (stock, or otherwise) taking from less than 5 seconds to around 5min before the random lock up occurs) but also happens when scrolling through messages; scrolling through emails in either of the stock apps; using a compass app which came pre-installed (very quickly).
Initially I thought it might have to do with WiFi, but problem also cropped up with WiFi off, using 2/3G. Then in troubleshooting also managed to get it to happen using the camera (lot of motion, and repeatedly taking snaps).
Also odd is that the batteries I received in the box were generic black ones, not the official stamped/logo'ed THL ones I've seen on every website and every unboxing of this particular phone. So while there's a possibility this may be a battery issue, the fact that the phone hasn't done this while using a more battery draining app (Beach Buggy Blitz; Rayman Jungle Run) makes me think this is a deeper hardware fault related to , although I don't know enough about voltages and such to rule it out completely.
I have a couple videos showing the problem, but unfortunately I'm not allowed to put the links here. Should both be easily found by searching:
THL W8S issue Kostas P
if interested.
Any thoughts/views would be greatly appreciated!
kostako said:
Received this phone (THL W8S) 5 days ago, and straight out of the box it has had a serious issue where the phone will lock up, the screen will fade slowly to black, and then reboot itself. The problem occurs both after factory resetting AND in safe mode.
The phone is unrooted and running the stock ROM.
Basically during use, the screen suddenly becomes unresponsive to touch and the physical buttons (home, volume, power) all stop functioning. As soon as the phone locks up this way, the screen slowly fades to black over about 60 seconds, at which point I have to leave it to fade completely before it reboots itself.
It happens most frequently when using any browser (stock, or otherwise) taking from less than 5 seconds to around 5min before the random lock up occurs) but also happens when scrolling through messages; scrolling through emails in either of the stock apps; using a compass app which came pre-installed (very quickly).
Initially I thought it might have to do with WiFi, but problem also cropped up with WiFi off, using 2/3G. Then in troubleshooting also managed to get it to happen using the camera (lot of motion, and repeatedly taking snaps).
Also odd is that the batteries I received in the box were generic black ones, not the official stamped/logo'ed THL ones I've seen on every website and every unboxing of this particular phone. So while there's a possibility this may be a battery issue, the fact that the phone hasn't done this while using a more battery draining app (Beach Buggy Blitz; Rayman Jungle Run) makes me think this is a deeper hardware fault related to , although I don't know enough about voltages and such to rule it out completely.
I have a couple videos showing the problem, but unfortunately I'm not allowed to put the links here. Should both be easily found by searching:
THL W8S issue Kostas P
if interested.
Any thoughts/views would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi, I also have the same problem described by kostako. Please look for your feedback as soon as possible.
thank you very much
Best regards.
san_tony said:
Hi, I also have the same problem described by kostako. Please look for your feedback as soon as possible.
thank you very much
Best regards.
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Hello, I wanted to inform you that lately the reboot occur concurrently with application updates.
They are like your impressions.
Best regards
THL W8S the screen fade and reboot too!!
Hello!
I received the phone on 12 September. The screen faded from the first minutes of use. Yesterday I came three times. In "THL mobile store" recommend updating the firmware. But the update I have not found anywhere.
any suggestions
Thank you very much in advance.
Hi all,
after upgrading to Lollipop, I have been experiencing a few "glitches" with the screen orientation a couple of times. Even though I've been holding my phone pretty straight upwards, the screen suddenly starts to rotate to landscape mode. Is there a way to recalibrate the gyroscopes (if they are responsible for that)? EDIT: OK, seems that it is actually the accelerometer...
The phone is stock unrooted, only thing is that I am running Nova launcher, could that be an issue? Has anybody else seen this?
Hello people,
I have been experiencing a weird issue lately with my OPO. It seems that for no apparent reason, my accelerometer's X-axis gets stuck in 0.000m/s² value, resulting in the inability to rotate the screen to landscape mode. And, again for no apparent reason, it starts working correctly... until the time it breaks again!
It's really crazy. Last night for example it was broken, I was browsing xda from chrome just to find a possible solution, and suddenly it started working, device just turned from portrait to landscape! When I woke up it was not working again. Sometime around the afternoon it started working again -without me doing anything-, not even handling the phone, it was flat on my desk! After 8 hours of working, it got stuck again right as I was writing this post...
Even when it's stuck however, If I try to shake the device very hard (to the point that it almost flies off my hands) I get a very small reading, around ~0,050m/s² to ~0.200m/s².
(readings were taken with Sensors app)
A reboot does not fix this. I have tried lots of configurations, it's not app/xposed related since it also happens after a full wipe and after flashing the 44S fastboot image. It's not kernel related (I think...) since it happens both with Stock and Franco. So it's either hardware, or related to the ROM.
I believe (and really hope) it's not hardware related since it started a while after flashing 44S, before that the accelerometer worked flawlessly. Also, I may be ignorant here, but if it was hardware it would break down once and for all, it wouldn't work intermittently, right? Either way, the device of course was never dropped or hit so as to damage the sensor in any way.
I've also read one report of the exact same problem on the OPO forum, but could not contact the poster, and several other reports of the accelerometer breaking down (and later being fixed) but in CM nightlies.
I have already tried to calibrate/reset through several apps but without any success. Is there anything else I can try to, erm, "un-stick" it? Maybe there's a configuration file I need to delete or something or a specific way to reset/calibrate it in CM. Or even tapping the device in a specific place? (lol I'm reaching here, but I can't think of anything else).
I have already reported the issue to Jira, if someone is experiencing the same please provide your input here.
My phone is a LG Optimus G (a F180 converted to E975, stock Euro firmware), but from googling this issue it seems to be a problem that can strike any phone with no readily apparent solution...
I first noticed it while playing Star Wars KOTOR, where it'd get stuck; flipping the phone (to better orient the charging lead) started leaving the picture upside down. Initially, I could fix it by long-pressing the home button to get at my notification bar and toggling auto-rotate off and on, before it crapped out entirely (necessitating an orientation-locking app), which led me to think it was a software issue...
But after googling the problem and seeing how widespread it is, I'm thinking maybe these sensors are just prone to failing? I saw all sorts of possible solutions offered, which apparently work for some, but it seems nothing solves it for many, including factory resets and flashing firmware... I uninstalled KOTOR when I was done with it, but to no avail. I don't fancy figuring out how to flash the firmware again, but if that's what it takes...
Does anyone know anything about this issue? Am I stuck with a slightly crippled phone now?