When I first got the moto G, I couldve sworn as soon as I touched proximity sensor (located next to speaker up top on front of the phone), the screen went blank.
Now it does this only when I'm in a skype or normal phone call.
Did I imagine this?
How does your moto G behave?
Does your screen go black when you block proximity sensor with your finger when in a call only, or all the time such as even when browsing?
shmotog said:
When I first got the moto G, I couldve sworn as soon as I touched proximity sensor (located next to speaker up top on front of the phone), the screen went blank.
Now it does this only when I'm in a skype or normal phone call.
Did I imagine this?
How does your moto G behave?
Does your screen go black when you block proximity sensor with your finger when in a call only, or all the time such as even when browsing?
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Mine is normal. Never happened except on a call. Have it happened once more?
ilovetorresmo said:
Mine is normal. Never happened except on a call. Have it happened once more?
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thanks, mine does it in call too. thanks for confirming. i probably just imagined it.
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Well i am very confused whether our phone has a light sensor or not. In the official user manual of I5801 (English-India), at page number 17, its clearly stated that the left one of the two sensors on top left side of our phone is proximity sensor and the right one is light sensor. If there is one, then why is there not any option for automatic brightness? and what its use is? And if its not there, then why is it given in the User's manual ?
Does anyone have any information on this at all? Was/is there any rom that supported automatic brighness via the light sensor?
So why isn't it included in Samsung' Stock Rom ?
Do you think really that no-one ever try to use it .
nishant_713 said:
Well i am very confused whether our phone has a light sensor or not. In the official user manual of I5801 (English-India), at page number 17, its clearly stated that the left one of the two sensors on top left side of our phone is proximity sensor and the right one is light sensor. If there is one, then why is there not any option for automatic brightness? and what its use is? And if its not there, then why is it given in the User's manual ?
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There is no light sensor on Galaxy I5800/5801. The proximity sensor is actually a pair of sensors, one sends an electromagnetic/Infrared radiation while the other one is to receive it back for the sensor to get activated.
nsm1234 said:
There is no light sensor on Galaxy I5800/5801. The proximity sensor is actually a pair of sensors, one sends an electromagnetic/Infrared radiation while the other one is to receive it back for the sensor to get activated.
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Wow, this is kinda shocking news!
Hi there,
I have the S2 on rogers the 727 series. I have a few issues.
1. LED notifications never worked
2. Camera on my phone is always darker (i compared it with the same from on AT&T and its camera was actually better
3. Whenever i get a txt or missed call the phone never vibrates and i've tried different sms apps and all of them dont work even though the setting is on.
I know there are apps to get LED notifications but i dont like that...i would like to see my LEDs that the phone has working. Anyone have similar issues?
gohan411 said:
Hi there,
I have the S2 on rogers the 727 series. I have a few issues.
1. LED notifications never worked
2. Camera on my phone is always darker (i compared it with the same from on AT&T and its camera was actually better
3. Whenever i get a txt or missed call the phone never vibrates and i've tried different sms apps and all of them dont work even though the setting is on.
I know there are apps to get LED notifications but i dont like that...i would like to see my LEDs that the phone has working. Anyone have similar issues?
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The phone had leds? News to me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
Nope no led's lol the programbfpr notifications is called no led for a reason
what are those three circles right beside the speaker on the top of the phone to the left. In between the front camera and the speaker. they look like LEDs to me.
Proximity sensor
gohan411 said:
what are those three circles right beside the speaker on the top of the phone to the left. In between the front camera and the speaker. they look like LEDs to me.
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silver03wrx said:
Proximity sensor
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proximity and light sensors.....nothing LED there. the only GS2 phone with LEDs is the sprint version....
ahh i see....well what about everyone's camera. Im pretty disappointed with mine when its dark or just not day light the pictures turn out pretty dark. When i use the flash peoples faces turn white.
Go into settings in your camera and turn up the exposure. Indoor shots seem to darken for some reason with the stock settings. See if that fixes the issue.
Hi, I have an issue slightly different than the ones I've found from searching. I have an unrooted Nexus 5 on Tmobile. the proximity sensor SEEMS to work, it turns the phone off when I talk but it CONSTANTLY hanging up, muting, or putting calls on speaker. I didn't have this issue with my previous nexus 5 and since I've gotten the new one (new out of package, replacement for previous which was stolen) I've dropped maybe 40% of my calls on accident and maybe 10-15% of calls accidentally put on speaker/muted.
Frustrating when you're in a phone job interview and you keep hanging up on the interviewer. I tried using a friends bluetooth ear piece for awhile just to see what would happen and it just did the same thing except in my purse/pocket.
Is this maybe a sensitivty setting I can adjust or should I take it to nearby T-Mobile store to be serviced/replaced?
Diabolicbutterfly said:
Hi, I have an issue slightly different than the ones I've found from searching. I have an unrooted Nexus 5 on Tmobile. the proximity sensor SEEMS to work, it turns the phone off when I talk but it CONSTANTLY hanging up, muting, or putting calls on speaker. I didn't have this issue with my previous nexus 5 and since I've gotten the new one (new out of package, replacement for previous which was stolen) I've dropped maybe 40% of my calls on accident and maybe 10-15% of calls accidentally put on speaker/muted.
Frustrating when you're in a phone job interview and you keep hanging up on the interviewer. I tried using a friends bluetooth ear piece for awhile just to see what would happen and it just did the same thing except in my purse/pocket.
Is this maybe a sensitivty setting I can adjust or should I take it to nearby T-Mobile store to be serviced/replaced?
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Do you happen to have a screen protector on?
There isn't any settings you can change unless you root. As the other poster said, the most common culprit is a screen protector that doesn't have a hole for the sensor or is misaligned.
aooga said:
There isn't any settings you can change unless you root. As the other poster said, the most common culprit is a screen protector that doesn't have a hole for the sensor or is misaligned.
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No screen protector but rooting isn't an issue I've just been lazy and haven't done it yet.
I noticed the other night as I was using my pixel 2 and viewing a security camera monitor when it's infra-red/night vision was active that the IR beacon on the front of my phone pulses regularly even when I am not using the front camera of my phone, and don't have a camera app running at the time. Does anyone know why the phone is using the IR light and sensor when I'm not using the phones front camera?
I don't think the pixel 2 has an ir on it.
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I noticed the other night as I was using my pixel 2 and viewing a security camera monitor when it's infra-red/night vision was active that the IR beacon on the front of my phone pulses regularly even when I am not using the front camera of my phone, and don't have a camera app running at the time. Does anyone know why the phone is using the IR light and sensor when I'm not using the phones front camera?
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Are you talking about the notification LED that sits in the top left hand corner or the camera LED flash? Your confusing me with this infrared/IR business. The pixel 2 doesnt have infrared.
enzyne said:
Are you talking about the notification LED that sits in the top left hand corner or the camera LED flash? Your confusing me with this infrared/IR business. The pixel 2 doesnt have infrared.
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No, I am certain it is not the notification LED. That is visible in normal lighting conditions. What I am referring to is only visible in night vision, which uses an infrared light and sensor. So this is clearly a blinking infrared light on the top of the front/face of the phone. I believe it is normally used to detect the distance of subject matter to help adjust the front camera focus depth.
Also, I don't know how the "n" in infrared got deleted after I finished typing in the rest of the title for this post, but I assure you that when I typed the word it showed up as "infrared" not "I frared". And now I can't seem to figure out how to edit the title of the post, so I guess it's stuck like this.
I'm starting to wonder if I've stumbled upon something that may be evidence that the phone is always using the front-facing camera - even when the user isn't using the camera or any app that uses the camera. I had my fiancée also come into the room so I could see if the same happened with her iPhone 6. On hers, no light on the front was active until she unlocked the phone. But as soon as she did, an infrared light on the face of it stayed illuminated *constantly*, whereas the one on my pixel 2 just flashes periodically.
My inner conspiracy theorist is starting to wonder WTF is going on here, and why these sensor arrays are active even when the front camera isn't in use.
I'm hoping a well-informed Android or Pixel 2 developer will see this and respond to address these concerns.
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No, I am certain it is not the notification LED. That is visible in normal lighting conditions. What I am referring to is only visible in night vision, which uses an infrared light and sensor. So this is clearly a blinking infrared light on the top of the front/face of the phone. I believe it is normally used to detect the distance of subject matter to help adjust the front camera focus depth.
Also, I don't know how the "n" in infrared got deleted after I finished typing in the rest of the title for this post, but I assure you that when I typed the word it showed up as "infrared" not "I frared". And now I can't seem to figure out how to edit the title of the post, so I guess it's stuck like this.
I'm starting to wonder if I've stumbled upon something that may be evidence that the phone is always using the front-facing camera - even when the user isn't using the camera or any app that uses the camera. I had my fiancée also come into the room so I could see if the same happened with her iPhone 6. On hers, no light on the front was active until she unlocked the phone. But as soon as she did, an infrared light on the face of it stayed illuminated *constantly*, whereas the one on my pixel 2 just flashes periodically.
My inner conspiracy theorist is starting to wonder WTF is going on here, and why these sensor arrays are active even when the front camera isn't in use.
I'm hoping a well-informed Android or Pixel 2 developer will see this and respond to address these concerns.
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That's interesting. I will try with my phone and nest camera and see if it acts the same on mine.
I just tested it again, holding the phone at varying angles from the security camera, activating and deactivating its night vision/IR mode to see the difference. I recorded a video of it and will post a link tomorrow. When infrared is active, there is a clearly visible blinking light located in the center of the top of the phone just above the speaker bar (the one to the right of the front camera).
I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this so that I can dismiss the paranoia that big brother is constantly watching me through my phone's camera.
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I just tested it again, holding the phone at varying angles from the security camera, activating and deactivating its night vision/IR mode to see the difference. I recorded a video of it and will post a link tomorrow. When infrared is active, there is a clearly visible blinking light located in the center of the top of the phone just above the speaker bar (the one to the right of the front camera).
I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this so that I can dismiss the paranoia that big brother is constantly watching me through my phone's camera.
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?It's the proximity sensor.
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?It's the proximity sensor.
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Exactly!!
But why is the proximity sensory active all the time? Is it so the Ambient display doesn't turn on when face down?
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Exactly!!
But why is the proximity sensory active all the time? Is it so the Ambient display doesn't turn on when face down?
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Its constantly trying to see if your phone is up to your ear or not.
I'm also wondering why the phone would need to have the proximity sensor active when I'm not using Ambient mode, and not currently engaged in a call. There's no need for it to be using the proximity sensor when I'm just browsing my home screen or using some other app. My phone isn't configured to turn off the screen if I set it face down for awhile or anything like that. So there shouldn't be anything using the proximity sensor.
This is common in modern phones, it's checking if you're holding it, if it if is by your face, in your pocket it allows gestures like wave to wake
Get used to it, it's not going away.
mrkhigh said:
This is common in modern phones, it's checking if you're holding it, if it if is by your face, in your pocket it allows gestures like wave to wake
Get used to it, it's not going away.
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But the pixel doesn't have any of those features.
if u want to turn the sensor, disable all option in ambient display.
koax88 said:
if u want to turn the sensor, disable all option in ambient display.
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Nope. I tested that a few months ago (this isn't the first time this has been spotted). You can turn the ambient display off completely and the sensor is still active.
Unless of course they've realised in the meanwhile that this is pointless and fixed it in a software update - I've not retested it recently.
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Nope. I tested that a few months ago (this isn't the first time this has been spotted). You can turn the ambient display off completely and the sensor is still active.
Unless of course they've realised in the meanwhile that this is pointless and fixed it in a software update - I've not retested it recently.
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I Just tested my phone, the sensor did not blink at all if u turn off all setting in the ambient Display section. Even double tap to wake will make the sensor blink. I noticed this since 8.0 tho.
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But the pixel doesn't have any of those features.
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It certainly does. I use it to keep the screen off when my phone, in an Otterbox Defender, is in the holster, or when I lay it down face down. Both the front and rear cameras can see into the infrared. Just aim a TV remote at them when any camera app is running and press a button and you'll see the remote's IR LED going. (It has no IR output, though.)
Hi guys love this P50 pro, but i have a problem with the proximity sensor in direct sunligt when hearing Whatsapp voice messages, the screen goes always dark.
Someone other experiencing this problem? Indoors it works just fine. Tried removing cover and screenprotector but nothing changes.
it happens to me that when calling in strong sun the display flashes, while in the room everything is fine
ok i see. do you think it's a software bug or proximity sensor problem?
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cvetican said:
it happens to me that when calling in strong sun the display flashes, while in the room everything is fine
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I'm experiencing the same issue. If the phone takes some kind of strong direct sunlight the screen start flashing on and off randomly. I did the Huawei Support test inside the phone and all the sensore are ok.
Got a new update yesterday emui 12.0.1.223 i will check again and report back
Ok! i can say that Huawei with the last Emui update 12.0.1.223 FIXED the issue with the screen and specifically with the proximity sensor that was constantly switching on and off the screen when this one gets direct sunlight on it. Yes thanks Huawei