[Q] One-Handed Operation does not work Sprint Galaxy S5 - Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am unable to get One-Handed operation to work. I have it turned on in settings and have performed the swips in the instructions. Anyone know whats wrong?

dkcarmona said:
I am unable to get One-Handed operation to work. I have it turned on in settings and have performed the swips in the instructions. Anyone know whats wrong?
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To be honest, you probably aren't doing it right. It took me a while to get the hang of it. It has to be one very quick motion, right to left to right, dead center

It's very frustrating. I think I can do it after about 10 tries. Hopefully we both will get the hang of it
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Sudden Death Brick?

Hey all. So I put my phone back to stock, followed all the guides to the ".". I then took the OTA update to 4.3, and now I believe I have the sudden death brick. When i attempt to power on my phone, it just keeps vibrating, and won't actually start. I was wondering if there are any fixes to this or am I SoL? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I can get it into Download mode for all of 2 seconds, and then it appears the phone shuts off.
TristanR said:
Hey all. So I put my phone back to stock, followed all the guides to the ".". I then took the OTA update to 4.3, and now I believe I have the sudden death brick. When i attempt to power on my phone, it just keeps vibrating, and won't actually start. I was wondering if there are any fixes to this or am I SoL? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you try the 3 buttons method to see where it get you? volum down + home button + power.
buhohitr said:
Have you try the 3 buttons method to see where it get you? volum down + home button + power.
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The power button didn't seem to be responding.
TristanR said:
The power button didn't seem to be responding.
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Try the Hard Brick debrick method in the Q/A section
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Sandman-007 said:
Try the Hard Brick debrick method in the Q/A section
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That unfortunately didn't work. Does the same thing as it did before hand. I did notice that I can get it into download mode for a second or two. Does that help me at all?
By the way, it says recovery booting when it turns on following that guide.
TristanR said:
That unfortunately didn't work. Does the same thing as it did before hand. I did notice that I can get it into download mode for a second or two. Does that help me at all?
By the way, it says recovery booting when it turns on following that guide.
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Try to repeat the process, rewrite the image to your sdcard, then try again (usually obtain results after 3-4 trials). Make sure you pull the battery, then insert the sdcard....like the instruction said!
buhohitr said:
Try to repeat the process, rewrite the image to your sdcard, then try again (usually obtain results after 3-4 trials). Make sure you pull the battery, then insert the sdcard....like the instruction said!
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Ah, it said it wrote successfully the first time so I left it at that. I'll definitely try rewriting it several more times. Thanks for the clarification. I'll update once I have the time to try it
buhohitr said:
Try to repeat the process, rewrite the image to your sdcard, then try again (usually obtain results after 3-4 trials). Make sure you pull the battery, then insert the sdcard....like the instruction said!
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So i just tried doing that about 10 times, and I still have no luck. Is there anything else I can do?
TristanR said:
So i just tried doing that about 10 times, and I still have no luck. Is there anything else I can do?
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JTAG is your next bet!
TristanR said:
Hey all. So I put my phone back to stock, followed all the guides to the ".". I then took the OTA update to 4.3, and now I believe I have the sudden death brick. When i attempt to power on my phone, it just keeps vibrating, and won't actually start. I was wondering if there are any fixes to this or am I SoL? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I can get it into Download mode for all of 2 seconds, and then it appears the phone shuts off.
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I feel like I have asked this a lot lately, if you remove your battery and put it back in does it turn on without you touching the power button?
ThePagel said:
I feel like I have asked this a lot lately, if you remove your battery and put it back in does it turn on without you touching the power button?
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It is... Is that bad?
TristanR said:
It is... Is that bad?
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What he's saying possible your button stuck in a closed position!
buhohitr said:
What he's saying possible your button stuck in a closed position!
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Is that a fixable thing? Or should I give up and send it to someone to fix
TristanR said:
Is that a fixable thing? Or should I give up and send it to someone to fix
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This sound crazy but works for many with power button issue:
"Today my phone kept turning off for no reason. Instead of hitting it on the table, this time i hit it against my washer on the rounded corner so i can precisely hit the power button. I had to do it like 10 times but its back up and running. I think its better to do it this way as the washer is plastic. Just a precaution so you don't break your phone"
Also ThePagel had suggested to some folks on this forum and they said it works!
Give it a try, if not working, maybe you need to hit it a little bit harder..without breaking your phone..
Give it a shot! When it happened to me I put a crappy thumb drive under my mouse pad and made sure only the button area got the impact. Be careful doing this. To light and it won't work, to hard and you might crack your screen. You might need to hit it a few times at "just the right speed" before the power button gets unstuck. Make sure you take your battery out as a safety precaution.
buhohitr said:
This sound crazy but works for many with power button issue:
"Today my phone kept turning off for no reason. Instead of hitting it on the table, this time i hit it against my washer on the rounded corner so i can precisely hit the power button. I had to do it like 10 times but its back up and running. I think its better to do it this way as the washer is plastic. Just a precaution so you don't break your phone"
Also ThePagel had suggested to some folks on this forum and they said it works!
Give it a try, if not working, maybe you need to hit it a little bit harder..without breaking your phone..
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ThePagel said:
Give it a shot! When it happened to me I put a crappy thumb drive under my mouse pad and made sure only the button area got the impact. Be careful doing this. To light and it won't work, to hard and you might crack your screen. You might need to hit it a few times at "just the right speed" before the power button gets unstuck. Make sure you take your battery out as a safety precaution.
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So, it just randomly turned it self back on, and I am thinking this may be an issue with software more than anything, because I also noticed on one point in the screen, without me even touching the phone, you will see the blip of something touching it. I am wondering if maybe I didn't properly flash stock back on or something. I also noticed the bootloader software is running on rev 1 and not 3. Is there a way to use Kies or something to just erase all the contents on the phone and reinstall it like new without having to throw it in download mode? I am rather concerned now about turning it off now that it may actually be at a point where I can fix it.
Maybe this is actually just a hardware error. I am really unsure. Either way, ever since I recieved the OTA 4.3, the splash screen says "Custom". At the very least does anyone have any idea how to get rid of that so I can just call up samsung since it's a shade under a year and if it is hardware I can just get a new phone.
TristanR said:
So, it just randomly turned it self back on, and I am thinking this may be an issue with software more than anything, because I also noticed on one point in the screen, without me even touching the phone, you will see the blip of something touching it. I am wondering if maybe I didn't properly flash stock back on or something. I also noticed the bootloader software is running on rev 1 and not 3. Is there a way to use Kies or something to just erase all the contents on the phone and reinstall it like new without having to throw it in download mode? I am rather concerned now about turning it off now that it may actually be at a point where I can fix it.
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The fact that it powered up when you put the battery in tells me its more hardware than software. The only way to reflash 4.3 from here is Odin or Verizon utility. kies might be pushing 4.3 by now (wasn't last time I checked) but anyway you pick it will do a full erase. Even if you could redo the ota it could still hard brick your phone if it restarts in the middle of installing. Are you sure you have the ota and not one of the 4 or 5 4.3 stock roms?
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The fact that it powered up when you put the battery in tells me its more hardware than software. The only way to reflash 4.3 from here is Odin or Verizon utility. kies might be pushing 4.3 by now (wasn't last time I checked) but anyway you pick it will do a full erase. Even if you could redo the ota it could still hard brick your phone if it restarts in the middle of installing. Are you sure you have the ota and not one of the 4 or 5 4.3 stock roms?
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actually had the battery in for a while. Kies does do 4.3 now. (Kies 3). I don't mind if i do a full erase, I have everything backed up in several locations already. I honestly just want to get this working, or something.
* any way you pick will require you to go into download mode including kies.
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TristanR said:
actually had the battery in for a while. Kies does do 4.3 now. (Kies 3). I don't mind if i do a full erase, I have everything backed up in several locations already. I honestly just want to get this working, or something.
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Kies 3 shouldn't be compatible with our phones. Besides Odin and even the Verizon utility runs much better than kies. it is a system hog with the chance of crashing in the middle of the install.
ThePagel said:
* any way you pick will require you to go into download mode including kies.
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Kids 3 shouldn't be comparable with our phones. Besides Odin and even the Verizon utility runs much better than kies. it is a system hog with the chance of crashing in the midfle of the install.
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Alright. Guess I'll do my best to get it into odin mode. Thanks for the help everyone. Hope I can eventually get this up and running again.

Anyone else having these problems?

First off I would like to say I love the phone EXCEPT for these two major problems. First one....I will pull the phone out of my pocket and it will have put itself into airplane mode. It will cut the bluetoooth on and sometimes cut the location off. I have had it where the screen is on when I pull it out of my pocket and sometimes it will still be locked and this happens. Today it cut the flashlight on and the screen was still locked. I use a pin code for my lock screen. Second and the major one is dropped calls. I have probably made 13 calls and 7 have dropped. On one of them it dropped 3 times on the same person. Sometimes when I pull the phone away from my face after a dropped call or a successful call, the notification bar will be pulled down. Its like the proximity sensor isn't working. I use cricket and have had none of these problems on my S6. I guess when I get time tomorrow I'm going to factory reset but I was just wondering if anyone else was having these problems? Maybe I got a dud.
Maybe your issue is related to mine.
Press the top left of your phone, right next to the power button, a bit hard. Does it make it go on/off? If so, maybe the force when it's in your pants is causing it to turn on and do random functions.
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hatcyl said:
Maybe your issue is related to mine.
Press the top left of your phone, right next to the power button, a bit hard. Does it make it go on/off? If so, maybe the force when it's in your pants is causing it to turn on and do random functions.
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I will try that but still doesn't explain the dropped calls but thanks for the info.
alnova1 said:
I will try that but still doesn't explain the dropped calls but thanks for the info.
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Did you try? What happened?
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hatcyl said:
Did you try? What happened?
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Yes and it didn't make it come on or off. Going to try a factory rest.
Well, did the reset work??
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Well, did the reset work??
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I haven't had time yet. I'm going to try it possible tonight or tomorrow morning when I have more time.
Just did a factory reset. I will find out in the next couple of days if it worked. Will post results. Hope it does. Like it as much as my S6.....except the camera. The camera isn't bad but the S6 is great.
does the factory reset default back to the original out of box software or does it default to the latest version?
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does the factory reset default back to the original out of box software or does it default to the latest version?
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It's going to reset to the last ROM that was installed on the phone. Once you update the phone you can't go back. Well you can but you need a custom recovery and the original ROM to flash.
I did the factory reset and seemed to help my problem. No pocket weirdness and calls seem to be fine. Will give it a few more days and post results.
Dropped call
I agree with your second issues: dropped calls.
Even i'm facing the same issue. More than 10 calls were dropped in a day, did factory reset - worked fine for 2-3 days and same issues appeared.
it seems to me something with signal issues.
One of the post in another thread points out the signal issues with the phone.
guru_bhai said:
I agree with your second issues: dropped calls.
Even i'm facing the same issue. More than 10 calls were dropped in a day, did factory reset - worked fine for 2-3 days and same issues appeared.
it seems to me something with signal issues.
One of the post in another thread points out the signal issues with the phone.
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I'm not having any dropped calls so far but the dialer is still a bit weird. No random airplane mode or anything else while in my pocket though.
alnova1 said:
I'm not having any dropped calls so far but the dialer is still a bit weird. No random airplane mode or anything else while in my pocket though.
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im running cricket but i havent noticed any droppped calls or maybe its just i dont talk much lol oh btw some text messages take a bit to send
Not sure if it makes a difference but I use Nova Launcher as my launcher and Rocketdialer as my dialer....and I'm getting normal behavior. The signal is slightly weaker than my nexus 4 was giving me in wcdma mode but that's the only quirk I've noticed.

Note 5 won't respond to touches unless restarted

Hopefully someone can help me with this.
I am having an issue with my phone where the top left corner does not want to respond unless I restart the phone. This happens a completely random times and I am unable to pinpoint it. It all started the other day when the update came out. I have format my phone I have used Samsung smart switch to reinstall the OS and issue keeps coming back. I'm also having the same issue towards the bottom where are Google now application launcher is located. If you are using TouchWiz it is in the middle of the message app when I press the area it doesn't do anything unless I press to the right of it. I have turned on developer tools and selected show touches. I can see the touches and everything looks like it should work but the OS doesn't do anything. Once I reboot everything goes back to normal. When this happens I am unable to hit back on applications such as Gmail and I have to use a physical button to go back.
Phone is completely stock and had not been rooted.
Has anyone else had this issue?
Thanks for your help
Admin can you please move to Q&A thread please. I realized I posted in the wrong spot.
This has also happened to me and I'm on a custom rom. Mind you, my screen was replaced not long ago because of stuck pixels, and I thought this could be problem with the new screen. Not sure what is happening, though.
I found on another forum that it had to do with Samsung pay and when that corner stops working for me I force stop the pay and pay framework and it stays working again
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dcasey627 said:
I found on another forum that it had to do with Samsung pay and when that corner stops working for me I force stop the pay and pay framework and it stays working again
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Awesome, going to disable it all together for now. Hopefully they fix it. Only reason I haven't rooted yet is Samsung pay.
Thank you @dcasey627
laristech said:
Awesome, going to disable it all together for now. Hopefully they fix it. Only reason I haven't rooted yet is Samsung pay.
Thank you @dcasey627
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I wasn't able to figure out how to disable it so I have to go in a couple times a day to stop it
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dcasey627 said:
I wasn't able to figure out how to disable it so I have to go in a couple times a day to stop it
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I use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro
It's less than 2 bucks and doesn't require root. (can't use with root anyways) It can disable any app including the Tmobile my account app.
Best 2 bucks I've spent.
Perfect! Thank you very much
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I'm actually currently having this same exact problem. The thing that confused me was that it's the top left corner, no matter your screen orientation. Meaning it MUST be something OS related. But now I'm hearing Samsung Pay is the culprit? It's never caused this before until today...
dcasey627 said:
I found on another forum that it had to do with Samsung pay and when that corner stops working for me I force stop the pay and pay framework and it stays working again
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Briankbl said:
I'm actually currently having this same exact problem. The thing that confused me was that it's the top left corner, no matter your screen orientation. Meaning it MUST be something OS related. But now I'm hearing Samsung Pay is the culprit? It's never caused this before until today...
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Well, wasn't Samsung Pay. I had both disabled and the issue came up today. I tried to figure out which app it was but I couldn't figure it out. I went to my recent apps and forced closed each one but the left corner was still messed up. I couldn't get it back until I restarted.
Others are having the same issues on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/3yd0k9/issues_with_note_5_do_i_go_to_the_store/
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxynote5/comments/3y4fhm/after_update_on_tmobile_screen_partially_not/
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxynote5/comments/3ydl9h/upper_left_hand_corner_of_screen_becomes/
laristech said:
Well, wasn't Samsung Pay. I had both disabled and the issue came up today. I tried to figure out which app it was but I couldn't figure it out. I went to my recent apps and forced closed each one but the left corner was still messed up. I couldn't get it back until I restarted.
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When I force close them I also Uninstall the updates and clear the cache. That always seems to fix it for me.
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dcasey627 said:
When I force close them I also Uninstall the updates and clear the cache. That always seems to fix it for me.
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I just uninstalled, clear cached, and and restarted. I'll see if it comes back. Thanks for your update.
Glad to know the problem is possibly a widespread one so Samsung has a better chance at fixing this.
Briankbl said:
Glad to know the problem is possibly a widespread one so Samsung has a better chance at fixing this.
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Yeah hopefully. T-mobile said all updates come from Samsung so they can't do anything but exchange the phone. Someone on reddit said he exchanged his phone and the issue came back. Plus, they send you a refurbish sometimes.
laristech said:
Yeah hopefully. T-mobile said all updates come from Samsung so they can't do anything but exchange the phone. Someone on reddit said he exchanged his phone and the issue came back. Plus, they send you a refurbish sometimes.
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It's an irritating problem, for sure, but not enough to go through all that. I'm just gonna wait it out for that Marshmallow update in January.
I'm having the same issue. I thought it was my phone and was about to contact tmobile about sending a replacement. Glad to know it's not just me. Looks like I'll just wait until the next update.
And I don't think it's Samsung Pay since I'm rooted and don't even have it installed
laristech said:
Hopefully someone can help me with this.
I am having an issue with my phone where the top left corner does not want to respond unless I restart the phone. This happens a completely random times and I am unable to pinpoint it. It all started the other day when the update came out. I have format my phone I have used Samsung smart switch to reinstall the OS and issue keeps coming back. I'm also having the same issue towards the bottom where are Google now application launcher is located. If you are using TouchWiz it is in the middle of the message app when I press the area it doesn't do anything unless I press to the right of it. I have turned on developer tools and selected show touches. I can see the touches and everything looks like it should work but the OS doesn't do anything. Once I reboot everything goes back to normal. When this happens I am unable to hit back on applications such as Gmail and I have to use a physical button to go back.
Phone is completely stock and had not been rooted.
Has anyone else had this issue?
Thanks for your help
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I had the same issue. I called tmobile and they were useless. Phone is stock and not rooted. Mine would happen and id reset the phone, it would be good for a few hours and then happened again. At first I thought it may be my case touching a part of the screen since the phone has such thin bezels. It wasn't the problem. I decided to do a factory reset and I've been good for 5 days now. I used Samsung pay before the reset and still use it now.
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Kirollos11 said:
I had the same issue. I called tmobile and they were useless. Phone is stock and not rooted. Mine would happen and id reset the phone, it would be good for a few hours and then happened again. At first I thought it may be my case touching a part of the screen since the phone has such thin bezels. It wasn't the problem. I decided to do a factory reset and I've been good for 5 days now. I used Samsung pay before the reset and still use it now.
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Prior to the factory reset, I also tried clearing catch and didn't work.
Kirollos11 said:
I had the same issue. I called tmobile and they were useless. Phone is stock and not rooted. Mine would happen and id reset the phone, it would be good for a few hours and then happened again. At first I thought it may be my case touching a part of the screen since the phone has such thin bezels. It wasn't the problem. I decided to do a factory reset and I've been good for 5 days now. I used Samsung pay before the reset and still use it now.
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Prior to the factory reset, I also tried clearing catch and didn't work.
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Yeah, they were useless for me too. I'm chatting with Samsung support via FB but they don't have any idea either. I've tried everything as well. I'm really out of options at this point. Sometimes when I clear everything from recent apps it starts working again but when I clear the same apps via force quit it doesn't work. I cant' figure out which app is causing it.
Samsung support is having me run my phone in safe mode for a few hours to see if the issues comes back. They're trying to see if it's a built in app or third party one.

Unknown Sources Doesn't Stay Enabled Permanently

I sideload a lot of apps, and an annoying kwirk that I've found is that unknown sources does not stay enabled permanently. Everytime I attempt to install an app from unknown sources, I have to hop into settings and recheck unknown sources.
Yes, I do uncheck "this install only"
me too. I've turned it back on about a dozen times. This last time seems to be holding, for a day so far.
yeah, it's been driving me nuts, I kept having to do this with all my Amazon underground apps. I did notice in the settings though in my case, it showed checked, but once amazon tried to install an app, it would magically uncheck.
did the software update this morning and it did not fix this for me still.
A good example why root and tasker is needed; this has been my experiance with touch wiz on S7 as well, simple setti gs dont stick ore reset sometimes. With root andbtasker though you can wright tasks that will auto re-apply seetings when touch wiz drops the ball.
This is different, my unknown source settings stuck on my S7E and Note 7 I had.
Root isn't needed for this. If it only happened after a reset it'd be no big deal. It happens literally every time you try and install and app. Even if its 2 mins apart no reboot.
Have same issue. Never had this issue before with S7 Edge and was not rooted. The permission just doesn't stay like it should.
Man, I thought I was going nuts lol. Same issue, but at least it didn't break the feature.
I thought this was just me.
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Same issue here
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Same here
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Can confirm I'm having the same problem. I'll see if talking to Samsung will get them to patch it soon hopefully.
Ditto
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nosympathy said:
This is different, my unknown source settings stuck on my S7E and Note 7 I had.
Root isn't needed for this. If it only happened after a reset it'd be no big deal. It happens literally every time you try and install and app. Even if its 2 mins apart no reboot.
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You misunderstand my post, often despite samsung best efforts, touch wiz is buggy, this is a bug!
Options;
1) You live with it
2) wait for samsung to fix, which in my experiance doesnt happen often
3) fix it yourself (but root and tasker required)
Same issue here, kind of a ridiculous bug
Same issue. At first, I thought Verizon struck again. I never know ifnitnis a bug or Verizon intentionally screwing with the OS.
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Same issue. At first, I thought Verizon struck again. I never know ifnitnis a bug or Verizon intentionally screwing with the OS.
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Well I've got AT&T, and it's like this. Not tooooooo bad but still and annoyance, and definitely not intentional because there is a option to uncheck "for this install only". It should get fixed.
lol, i thought i was going crazy.
Same problem here thought it was weird.
I'm having the same issue. At least I know now that I'm not the only one
Mine does. I went into settings and turned it on. I installed 3 apps and it's still on.
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Strange overlay requiring buttons to be pressed twice (Samsung Galaxy S3 running CM)

Hi, I sold a very old phone earlier and the person sent me this video saying the phone is broken and you have to double press things.
Am I right in thinking this is a setting and can be easily fixed? It looks to be software rather than hardware. Their son is very upset so I'd like to fix it asap! If possible, otherwise a refund obviously.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod. Thanks
Edit: Fixed by holding down both the volume buttons for 3 seconds!
Easiest way would be to a factory reset since it's going to a new user. Make sure you delete the Google and Samsung accounts first then do the reset in settings not the boot menu if possible.
Thanks, it has already been reset though and it was like this from the start? It's very strange, not sure how to disable it. (also doesn't help that I don't have access to the phone!)
blizeH said:
Hi, I sold a very old phone earlier and the person sent me this video saying the phone is broken and you have to double press things: https://streamable.com/k9gp7h
Am I right in thinking this is a setting and can be easily fixed? It looks to be software rather than hardware. Their son is very upset so I'd like to fix it asap! If possible, otherwise a refund obviously.
It's a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod. Thanks
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Why not let them do a simple factory reset?
Update: fixed! I think holding down both volume buttons for 3 seconds seemed to work
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Update: fixed! I think holding down both volume buttons for 3 seconds seemed to work
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You already did a factory reset and it persisted.
So you did a hard reboot and that temporarily at least did the trick?
Thanks, like I said it's tricky because I don't have access to the phone, but either way they are happy with it now But yup - it was from a full reset and it was there, unless they turned it on by accident.
blizeH said:
Thanks, like I said it's tricky because I don't have access to the phone, but either way they are happy with it now But yup - it was from a full reset and it was there, unless they turned it on by accident.
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May be an Accessibility feature. Sort of sounds like it. Lol for Vets that can't break the double tap habit.

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