Proximity Sensor during Skype calls not wokring - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is anyone else having this problem? My screen is not turning off during Skype calls. The battery drains a lot faster obviously, but the real killer is that I continue to navigate my phone with my face, often times to a disastrous result... I searched for this issue and found a lot of results for Nexus 4, but none for Nexus 5.

Same with my Nexus 5. In call the screen doesn't turn off, but when I hang up then the Skype kicks in and acts like mad turning screen off every time I cover the sensor, this is stupid and drives me mad.

I bet you could set up something in Tasker, such as, when Skype is loaded and the phone is vertical, disable touchscreen.

Surely you'd expect a "video call" app to not turn off the screen ?
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Could this be perhaps caused by a dpi setting?(I've got it set so that everything is a lot smaller so that more things can be fit on the screen) Looking at my Skype layout it looks like it does on my Nexus 7 tablet. Maybe skype thinks that it's on a tablet, hence the proximity sensor is not being employed. I don't have a Speaker phone button either. This is just a theory, I'm not willing to test it by going to default Dpi as it screwes my entire layout, icons, folders etc.
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rootSU said:
Surely you'd expect a "video call" app to not turn off the screen ?
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op might be referring to skype audio calls

jj14 said:
op might be referring to skype audio calls
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Indeed, I am talking about audio calls...
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G2x notifications?

Am I missing something, but I can't find how to enable notifications for missed email or calls. Does this feature exist?
I surprised no one seemed to bothered by lack of led notification... This was the most useful feature in N1
dkreviews said:
I surprised no one seemed to bothered by lack of led notification... This was the most useful feature in N1
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Actually I'm very bothered by it, but knew about it going in. I just don't think any phones are going to have that magic trackball or led notification anymore.
Apparently there's a mod for the Optimus 2x that enables the soft keys at the bottom of the phone to light up as notifications, but it hasn't been ported to the G2X yet.
Well, there might be no dedicated LED, but there are those touch buttons, they should do the trick. As a matter of fact there is an app Touch LED Notifications (BETA) 0.3, but it appears a bit buggy still.
been using touch led beta 0.3 for two days. so far it's workin great!
d/l it here:
http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
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Yep, touch led beta 0.3 works fine for me for 2 days now.
I can not find a download link on that page to save my life. Do I need to register?
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does the led button app drain your battery life? doesnt that unsleep the phone?
There is also an app in the market called noLED that works awesome.
Noled is great for amoled screens to my knowledge. On amoled you can light up a specific led whereas on LCD you still turn on the entire backlight.
From author's description the app processes notifications only when they are received and the phone is awoken anyway. You can also set timeout after which the less stop flashing (I set it to 3 hours for example.)
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Here is the direct link martinborjesson .com/android/Optimus2XTouchLEDNotificationsBETA-0.3.apk
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The 2x touch LED app has been working for me for almost 2 days now w/no apparent issues.
Touch LED Beta 0.3 working great here! Haven't tested noLED from market but it's meant for AMOLED screens whose black pixels do not consume power. If you use noLED for notifications to display on your LCD screen, it will be like leaving the whole screen on any time you have a message.
Yea 2x touch just pulses your capacitive buttons at the bottom. Its configurable and works great...
I'd rather light up 4 LEDs then my whole backlight.
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Started using the Touch LED app, works great. So glad this came along. Hit thanks button rroyter and biturbomunkie.
Hey can one of you tell me your settings on it?? I want to make sure i have it set up correctly.
Its strange im using google voice for text but everytime i receive one the keys dont light up...is this a bug???
Perfect! Just had to change the file extension from txt to apk for some reason. Works good unrooted.
will this stop my entire screen from illuminating when i get a text? all my other android phones did not have their screens turn on when a text comes through unless i had an sms pop up app.
Need a little help with this, when I DL the .apk on my phone, it turns into a .txt file. What am I doin wrong?
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Touchscreen sensitivity

Does it seem to anyone else that the screen on this phone doesn't always register input as consistently or quickly as it should?
Is this a software or hardware issue?
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Hog Milanese said:
Does it seem to anyone else that the screen on this phone doesn't always register input as consistently or quickly as it should?
Is this a software or hardware issue?
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I'm wondering the same thing. For instance the keyboard seems to have trouble with registering a keypress on the same key that just worked fine the press before. Granted I just got the phone yesterday and I'm in my learning curve, and it's still stock. Lovin my ns4g with no bloat either way ;-)
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I just posted about this. Didn't seem as bad until I rooted the phone, but that was within about three hours of getting it. It's annoying as hell, right? My thread is in the General Forum. ugh.
The screen is definitely not as sensitive as HTC screens. And I agree, it's annoying.
My screen was to sensitive before update but saying HTC has more sensitivity touch screens I beg to differ
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Mine is so sensitive that I don't even have to touch the screen, it will register a touch if I hover just above it.
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what update is this you're referring to?
mine also does the hover thing. I'm getting very annoyed with this...
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I know the feeling, mine seems to be solely limited to the pre-call dialer. On the dialer it works like a 15 year old palm pilot. Everything else is hyper sensitive. It works fine when in a call.
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Is there a setting to change the touchscreen sensitivity on the Nexus S?
I have noticed when the screen is hot it doesn't register keys pressed, I always end up hitting the "." Its quite annoying but j do however love the phone
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Is there somewhere on the phone to set the sensitivity?
Mine falls into the "So sensative that it registers a touch when I hover my finger over it".
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I apologize if I'm a little cranky but no one seems to see my question. Is there ANY SETTING available for the sensitivity of the touchscreen?
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I apologize if I'm a little cranky but no one seems to see my question. Is there ANY SETTING available for the sensitivity of the touchscreen?
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No setting that i know of. I believe some kernels adjust sensitivity but its one setting built in not adjustable. I am running netatchy kernel and responsiveness is amazing.
87Octane said:
No setting that i know of. I believe some kernels adjust sensitivity but its one setting built in not adjustable. I am running netatchy kernel and responsiveness is amazing.
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Yep that is true, sometimes it depends of the ROM or Kernel you have.
Hello, fellow Nexus S owners. I am resurrecting the thread because I found myself in a similar situation.
But first some history and details - I own a I9023 handset and have been using stock ROM since it came out (JZO54K). Couple of days ago I noticed that the lower part of the screen (the line right above the hardware buttons) is less responsive and sometimes even unresponsive. This makes it really annoying when trying to call somebody and nothing happens when I try to launch the dialer. The same behavior is observed throughout the whole row this includes even applications button. When texting the same things happens.
At first I thought that this could be due to me installing a "Temple Run" kind of game, but I wiped it, rebooted and the problem remains.
What do you think? Could this be a hardware problem or software one?
Your digitizer might be dying.
It's also known that while charging the phone with the wrong charger the screen goes crazy, but then, unplugging the phone will usually solve the issue.
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BenHeng said:
Your digitizer might be dying.
It's also known that while charging the phone with the wrong charger the screen goes crazy, but then, unplugging the phone will usually solve the issue.
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Luckily the device is still under warranty so I will take it to my vendor for repair. Maybe then I will have some info on what's happening.
I had a similar problem a while back when my battery started to die. I've never experienced any touch screen wackiness caused by third-party chargers, but this seemed to be a comparable issue albeit in the opposite direction. So in addition to my battery losing charge real quick touches wouldn't register in the bottom half of the screen.

Screen not turning on (especially during calls)

I have an odd problem. I'm running the latest Whitehawkx MIUI, and sometimes when I push the power button to use the phone, it will flash the unlock screen for a fraction of a second and then go to a black screen. Not that the screen is off, the LCD is running, but displaying black. I push power again, the screen loses power and goes to full black. I push it again, most of the time it works like it should. Sometimes it repeats the problem.
And good god, calls are almost unmanageable. The screen does not turn on when someone calls me, ever. I have to push power, wade through the flash-to-black, and then answer the call.
This has been happening on every version of MIUI I've run, I'm only now getting around to posting a thread about it now.
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Are you running setcpu?
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Are you running setcpu?
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Yes I am... I never thought of that but it makes sense. I should note that I do not experience this problem on any other rom, just Miui.
I am going to disable set CPU and see if that improves anything though. It's a shame, Tasker can't modify the CPU on this phone, otherwise I'd just have it up the clock speed when a call is incoming.
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LordButtersI said:
Yes I am... I never thought of that but it makes sense. I should note that I do not experience this problem on any other rom, just Miui.
I am going to disable set CPU and see if that improves anything though.
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If you have a screen off profile then it would kick in during a phone call when the screen goes off. I always set up a separate In Call profile for that very reason and give it a higher priority than the screen off profile.
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If you have a screen off profile then it would kick in during a phone call when the screen goes off. I always set up a separate In Call profile for that very reason and give it a higher priority than the screen off profile.
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I've already done exactly that, I'm more worried about being able to answer the call in the first place.
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Red light of the proximity sensor remain active

Hi there!!
I don't know if this is a know thing anyway, on the right of the HTC logo there is the proximity sensor that shut down the display during a call. When it's on a you can see a red light from it. It should be turned on only during call. In the last days I have noted that the light remain always on even if I'm not doing a call. It turns off only if I taskiller all the process, but this stand only for 40 second as after this period of time the light reactivate itself again ( probably because some proces automatically restarts ) what can I do?? Is there somebody else who he's experiencing this too??
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light_n_roses said:
Hi there!!
I don't know if this is a know thing anyway, on the right of the HTC logo there is the proximity sensor that shut down the display during a call. When it's on a you can see a red light from it. It should be turned on only during call. In the last days I have noted that the light remain always on even if I'm not doing a call. It turns off only if I taskiller all the process, but this stand only for 40 second as after this period of time the light reactivate itself again ( probably because some proces automatically restarts ) what can I do?? Is there somebody else who he's experiencing this too??
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Do you have any apps for brightness management? I've experienced the same before and it was due to such app.
no..I use no app for that...
Have you tried to make another phone call and see if it switches off after hang up? Maybe in the last call it hasn't switched off for whatever reason/bug.
I noticed this, but after some digging I found out that Viber is causing this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80972874
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Have you tried to make another phone call and see if it switches off after hang up? Maybe in the last call it hasn't switched off for whatever reason/bug.
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Already tried and not worked
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I noticed this, but after some digging I found out that Viber is causing this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80972874
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Thanks you very much!! You are right, it's viber, I have manually closed it and it stop doing that!!:good:
boardlord said:
I noticed this, but after some digging I found out that Viber is causing this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80972874
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THANK YOU, this was driving me insane and I couldn't find anything on it
Yes, viber is the problem. Thank you guys for the info!
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An updated version of viber is now out with fixed proximity sensor controller..no more bug
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Good to see you've found the cause.
I also noticed this behaviour if you made a call and switched staight to loudspeaker without putting the phone to your ear. When the call was finished the sensor would remain active requiring a reboot of the phone to turn it off.
Seems to have been fixed with the 4.0.4 update
Same thing happened to me, except I don't have viber. Reboot fixed it.
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TheForumTroll said:
Same thing happened to me, except I don't have viber. Reboot fixed it.
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I don't have viber and even after reboot, wipe cache/dalvic it still glows. HTC One S with Axiom ROM. this just started in the last week. I haven't downloaded any new apps though several have updated but I couldn't tell you which ones now. Trying to disable everything I can think of that would use the proximity sensor to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
This happens to me whenever I'm using bluetooth, but what works for me is this:
Download "Proximity Sensor Finder" from the play store, open it up and wave your hand over the proximity sensor. Close the program and the red light goes away. It's faster that doing a reboot. This works for me and hopefully it works for others as well.
My problem was related with a bug inside viber, the app has been updated and the sensor start working good again
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I don't have viber and even after reboot, wipe cache/dalvic it still glows. HTC One S with Axiom ROM. this just started in the last week. I haven't downloaded any new apps though several have updated but I couldn't tell you which ones now. Trying to disable everything I can think of that would use the proximity sensor to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
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I am facing the exact same scenario. I have never installed Viber on my phone.
Does the issue get resolved after the JB update?
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Snapperjacker said:
This happens to me whenever I'm using bluetooth, but what works for me is this:
Download "Proximity Sensor Finder" from the play store, open it up and wave your hand over the proximity sensor. Close the program and the red light goes away. It's faster that doing a reboot. This works for me and hopefully it works for others as well.
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This is what I used and haven't had a problem since.
you could also try to install taskiller and kill everything, if the sensor stop being on it's related to a process that keep it active if not it's probably and hardware issue
Since we're talking about the proximity sensor, it shouldn't stay on during a call when the screen is manually turned off. On the Galaxy Note II the sensor turns off.
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Having your vibration setting activated caused the proximity light to stay on.
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A little help from people who know Android well?

This problem is not actually on my phone, it's on my missus' but I've changed the rom and the problem persists. So I assume it's something on the sd or internal storage or an app perhaps that isn't getting wiped when flashing roms....
When she presses her power button to turn the screen off, it goes off, but then lights back up again for no reason. She even says it can randomly light up to the lock screen when just sat on the side not even touched.
Any ideas anyone? It's really bloody annoying. Lol
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It will just be an app waking up the phone. Perhaps using better battery stats with reference set to "screen off" looking at "alarms" can help identify what caused it.
It certainly wont be easy to track down the culprit though
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Thanks, I've got it downloaded and installed so I'll see if it can help
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