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Alarm/notification not working?

I've had a problem with my XDA Exec since last Friday. I use it as my alarm clock on a morning normally - the 3 alarms are better than a snooze button cos it eases me in gently by reducing the snooze time each time. But on Friday I was late for work when it didn't go off at all. When I woke up and switched it on, all 3 notifications came through at once. Same has happened yesterday and today (though luckily I was already awake both times).
I did a reset over the weekend, and I know its not a sound issue as it just doesn't go off until you switch it on and they all come through at once. If I receive a text or phone call that wakes the phone up so I know its not that either.
Any thoughts/ideas?

alarm problem
hey buddy even i m facing same problem, it oesnt goes off, i mean even if we uncheck it in notification it doesnt goes off, even after soft reset it doesnt...whats the problem

After a few days it decided to rectify itself. Still no idea what exactly when wrong, but its working now at least.

Screen would not unlock

Hi,
I've only had my Nexus S for a couple of days and loving it so far, but this morning I had a problem. Here's how it happened:
When my alarm clock went off I hit the snooze button and turned the screen off, went back to sleep. 10 minutes later the alarm went off again later as expected and so I hit snooze again and turned the screen off like before. 5 minutes later I decided to get up as otherwise I would have been late for work, so I go to my phone to disable the alarm as otherwise it would be buzzing when I'm in the shower and the missus would get annoyed. The problem however was that I couldn't unlock the screen! I was jabbing at the power button repeatedly to get it to come on but no response at all. I ending up removing the battery. I should also add that my phone was plugged in a the time as I'd left it charging over night.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? I will try and replicate the problem. Here's how my phone is at the moment:
All my homescreens are bare apart from the main one where I have a 4 shortcuts, google search bar and the analogue clock widget. Apps I currently have installed are: Ebay official, facebook official, Twitter official, 3G watchdog, Fruit Ninja, Angy Birds, Live Holdem, Google maps, Gmail Unread Count, Movies, TV Guide.
I'm hoping that this problem was just a one-off.
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sort of same here. i bought it last thursday and today i can't use the lower part of the screen, right where the phone, menu and browser icons are. Space bar won't work when writing text, etc.
If anyone knows how to fix, pls share
The device is stock 2.3.3, i9023XXKB1, didn't root.

D G said:
Hi,
I've only had my Nexus S for a couple of days and loving it so far, but this morning I had a problem. Here's how it happened:
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I have been using Nexus S for 4 months now, and I do have random reboots once in a while. Did the phone well work after the reboot?
sort of same here. i bought it last thursday and today i can't use the lower part of the screen, right where the phone, menu and browser icons are. Space bar won't work when writing text, etc.
If anyone knows how to fix, pls share
The device is stock 2.3.3, i9023XXKB1, didn't root.
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I never had responsive problem on my phone other than the phone just freezing... Maybe theres something wrong, go ask Samsung.

unfortunately i also have such a problem now! since this morning my screen does not respond on touch correctly...it is very hard to unlock the screen (have to do it very slowly, bar is jumping like crazy) and after that it seems like the screen is reacting even on any reflection, suddenly the status bar is coming down, if i am in a menu, it always scrolls down and up...damned, that sux!
any ideas what i could do? or is this a case for samsung support?
ps: i did not flash anything in the last days, i even restored my nandbackup, that i made after 2.3.4-update (no custom kernel, no nothing), but that did not change anything...

[Q] Random issues.

I didn't think this would be a development thread so i'm starting it here. This is just some of the random issues I'm having.. and was wondering if anyone else was having these or any other issues.
The unknown notification on lockscreen is apparently for other people too.. and i've noticed it's dealing with the stock messaging app. Has anyone figured out how to turn off the counter on the stock launcher for the stock messaging app if you're using a different app like Handcent?
Random lockups. My phone will not come out of sleep.. or i won't be able to unlock it. nothing will be on the screen and i have to pull the battery in order to do anything.
random FC of an app.. or just not even notified of the FC just get this vibrate then double vibrate and everything crashes back to the home screen. First did it when i started setting up the device. and done it a few times since. I've also had one time that was continuous of "vibrate...double vibrate" over and over and over and over.. you get the picture.. and i had to pull the battery.
Is anyone else having these issues or anything similar? Or should I run back to the store and exchange this sucker?

syph0r said:
I didn't think this would be a development thread so i'm starting it here. This is just some of the random issues I'm having.. and was wondering if anyone else was having these or any other issues.
The unknown notification on lockscreen is apparently for other people too.. and i've noticed it's dealing with the stock messaging app. Has anyone figured out how to turn off the counter on the stock launcher for the stock messaging app if you're using a different app like Handcent?
Random lockups. My phone will not come out of sleep.. or i won't be able to unlock it. nothing will be on the screen and i have to pull the battery in order to do anything.
random FC of an app.. or just not even notified of the FC just get this vibrate then double vibrate and everything crashes back to the home screen. First did it when i started setting up the device. and done it a few times since. I've also had one time that was continuous of "vibrate...double vibrate" over and over and over and over.. you get the picture.. and i had to pull the battery.
Is anyone else having these issues or anything similar? Or should I run back to the store and exchange this sucker?
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No problems here at the moment, had it about a week and havent seen any of the problems you are mentioning. But this is just for me.

I get this hard crash (vibrate... double vibrate... soft reboot) at random times. It seems to be when I'm running several apps at once. For example, driving to work,I use (Google) Navigation and Doggcatcher for playing podcasts, while GPS and Bluetooth are both enabled.
These apps have been rock solid for me with the 5 other Android phones I've had. Besides, the crashes happen with other combinations of apps. Come to think of it, audio playback is usually (always?) involved, be it with Xiia or the stupid built-in music app.
syph0r said:
random FC of an app.. or just not even notified of the FC just get this vibrate then double vibrate and everything crashes back to the home screen. First did it when i started setting up the device. and done it a few times since. I've also had one time that was continuous of "vibrate...double vibrate" over and over and over and over.. you get the picture.. and i had to pull the battery.
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Randy Power said:
I get this hard crash (vibrate... double vibrate... soft reboot) at random times. It seems to be when I'm running several apps at once. For example, driving to work,I use (Google) Navigation and Doggcatcher for playing podcasts, while GPS and Bluetooth are both enabled.
These apps have been rock solid for me with the 5 other Android phones I've had. Besides, the crashes happen with other combinations of apps. Come to think of it, audio playback is usually (always?) involved, be it with Xiia or the stupid built-in music app.
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that's what i've been noticing. but sometimes i'm not even running many apps. i haven't put much on the phone since i've been having these issues, but these apps work perfectly even on my G1. i think i'm just having odd issues with my phone pretty sure its getting exchanged on monday.

I hav the odd vibrating too...Not sure if I should return the phone or not.
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i think the "odd vibrating" where its a single vibration.. then 2 quick vibrations.. is a sign of an FC.. not 100% sure.. but thats what i see going on when it happens to me. I've also noticed when i'm outside and thinks i'm selecting things or moving the trackball thing. always to the right.. i think my phone is faulty..

syph0r said:
i think the "odd vibrating" where its a single vibration.. then 2 quick vibrations.. is a sign of an FC.. not 100% sure.. but thats what i see going on when it happens to me. I've also noticed when i'm outside and thinks i'm selecting things or moving the trackball thing. always to the right.. i think my phone is faulty..
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I like that it vibrate to tell you, but other people don't get that?Maybe mines is faulty too?
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I get the double vibrate and bam, FC's. Usually when im trying to open up and or lots of stuff at once on my phone or using a different launcher "adw" or others and it would happen. Wheres the fix ey.

is anyone having a problem with notifications? i use GoSms, and it doesn't seem to sound the ringtone i have selected, the message just comes in silently..... and same with Beejive IM, and i think K9 mail. all these things worked perfectly on my EPIC 4G.

i was using handcent.. and it was working fine.. minus the unlock screen unknown notification. but everything else has been making sounds just fine.

syph0r said:
i was using handcent.. and it was working fine.. minus the unlock screen unknown notification. but everything else has been making sounds just fine.
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Dang ok, well I may have to unroot mine if possible, and take it back, haha. So I'll be watching for a response to your question in the other thread.
Edit: I fixed my notifications..... somehow my notification volume had been turned all the way down, so I wasn't getting any sounds for texts, emails, etc. Not sure how it got turned down, but sometimes I guess settings can get jarred by various things we do to our phones.

[Q] Nexus 5 stopped being able to vibrate

So I recently bought a Nexus 5. A short time after, I noticed that when I would type on the keyboard, it would sometimes stop vibrating. When this would happen, nothing would make it vibrate. The back and home buttons wouldn't vibrate (yes, they should according to the settings), and my phone wouldn't vibrate when receiving texts or other notifications (again, they should be). It seems the fix was to just turn the screen off and back on. Now however, it seems vibration constantly doesn't work. Nothing that should be vibrating according to the phones settings would vibrate. Occasionally, vibration would randomly start working again, but once I turned the screen off and back on, vibration would stop working again. This was on Android 4.4.4. When the factory images for 5.0 were released yesterday, I installed it on my phone using the android sdk, instead of waiting for the OTA. I figured since this caused a factory reset, that it would fix the vibration issue. Nope, still there. Is there anyway that I can fix this, or is this just a hardware issue and I'm stuck dealing with whether it wants to work or not? Oh, when it does vibrate, it doesn't vibrate weakly. It vibrates as it should.

thexlizardxking said:
So I recently bought a Nexus 5. A short time after, I noticed that when I would type on the keyboard, it would sometimes stop vibrating. When this would happen, nothing would make it vibrate. The back and home buttons wouldn't vibrate (yes, they should according to the settings), and my phone wouldn't vibrate when receiving texts or other notifications (again, they should be). It seems the fix was to just turn the screen off and back on. Now however, it seems vibration constantly doesn't work. Nothing that should be vibrating according to the phones settings would vibrate. Occasionally, vibration would randomly start working again, but once I turned the screen off and back on, vibration would stop working again. This was on Android 4.4.4. When the factory images for 5.0 were released yesterday, I installed it on my phone using the android sdk, instead of waiting for the OTA. I figured since this caused a factory reset, that it would fix the vibration issue. Nope, still there. Is there anyway that I can fix this, or is this just a hardware issue and I'm stuck dealing with whether it wants to work or not? Oh, when it does vibrate, it doesn't vibrate weakly. It vibrates as it should.
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Hardware. The vibration module is located on the backcover and is attached by a small sticky pad which can become dislodged or loose for various reasons. Some who have the issue have reported success giving the phone a smack, others choose to open it up (careful, lots to damage) while others take the RMA route wanting to keep their warranty intact.

bblzd said:
Hardware. The vibration module is located on the backcover and is attached by a small sticky pad which can become dislodged or loose for various reasons. Some who have the issue have reported success giving the phone a smack, others choose to open it up (careful, lots to damage) while others take the RMA route wanting to keep their warranty intact.
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Well, I'm going to avoid opening the phone up. Tried smacking it, but that has yet to work. Would Google replace the phone because of this, or am I just stuck with how it is?

thexlizardxking said:
Well, I'm going to avoid opening the phone up. Tried smacking it, but that has yet to work. Would Google replace the phone because of this, or am I just stuck with how it is?
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Of course. If the vibration module isn't working as intended then they will accept your RMA request and send you a refurbished replacement device.

bblzd said:
Of course. If the vibration module isn't working as intended then they will accept your RMA request and send you a refurbished replacement device.
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That's good. I hit it a couple more times, and it's working right now. I'll see how it progresses.
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[Q] Phone only rings for about one second and then stops.

After upgrading to lollipop, I have noticed when recieving a call that sometimes my phone will ring for about 1 second and then stop but continue to vibrate. I am not using any quick cover or anything. This doesnt happen all the time but it does happen quite often. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm completely stock on 5.0 (i have deleted my cache partition and the problem still persists)

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After upgrading to lollipop, I have noticed when recieving a call that sometimes my phone will ring for about 1 second and then stop but continue to vibrate. I am not using any quick cover or anything. This doesnt happen all the time but it does happen quite often. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm completely stock on 5.0 (i have deleted my cache partition and the problem still persists)
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Are you using a custom ringtone?

Aerowinder said:
Are you using a custom ringtone?
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No, just the stock tones. I find it happening sometimes with my SMS messages as well but not all the time.

Update: I have since unlocked my bootloader (wiped) and rooted my phone and the problem still persist. Seems like I'm not alone, I have starred this so hopefully someone can see it. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81178#makechanges
Anyone have any suggestions that I could try?

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I had thought I had fixed the problem by re flashing the stock image of lollipop, the problem went away and my phone started to ring again but shortly its back to only vibrating. I noticed that the little vibrate symbol was popping up in the status bar whenever I received a call, even when I turned off the also vibrate for calls option. I then remembered that when I use the volume butler app and set it to my vibrate profile that symbol would also pop up. I uninstalled volume butler and everything seemed to be working fine. Next I Checked the play store for comments regarding the issue and I noticed two things: There was a recent fix "ringtone changing to silent upon first install" and it said that the app was installed onto my device and not requiring an update even though I had just uninstalled it. So I decided to open it up and it was as if I was starting the app for the first time as none of my previous data was in there for testing purposes I decided to set up the same profiles that I had before and try calling my phone and my phone rang like it should, weird. Perhaps I had two versions and that was the one that I originally uninstalled is that even possible?( I could have sworn I had updated it,as it was under the up to date app list) Regardless, I uninstalled it again and everything is still working as it should. Hoping that this was was the culprit I will continue to test my phone and see.