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[Q] Unable to update apps (hit certain on-screen buttons)

I am having an odd issue with my Focus. The marketplace is stating that I have 2 updates to do (yesterday was one). When I click on the maketplace it opens up and at bottom of the screen states I have 2 update, but I am unable to click the words "2 updates" in order to install them. I can't even tell which programs they are for.
I am have a similar issues sending text messages. When I have the conversation up and type the text message, I am unable to hit the send button. I have found a work around for this... After I finish typing the message, I can click on the conversation itself and the keyboard goes away. With no keyboard showing I am able to click the send button (which is located in same location as if the keyboard was there).
Anyone heard of such an issue?

bigdog77s said:
I am having an odd issue with my Focus. The marketplace is stating that I have 2 updates to do (yesterday was one). When I click on the maketplace it opens up and at bottom of the screen states I have 2 update, but I am unable to click the words "2 updates" in order to install them. I can't even tell which programs they are for.
I am have a similar issues sending text messages. When I have the conversation up and type the text message, I am unable to hit the send button. I have found a work around for this... After I finish typing the message, I can click on the conversation itself and the keyboard goes away. With no keyboard showing I am able to click the send button (which is located in same location as if the keyboard was there).
Anyone heard of such an issue?
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I guess your phone(screen sensor) is broken.

tbk21 said:
I guess your phone(screen sensor) is broken.
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Well the weird thing is, like i said, once I minimize the keyboard I am able to click the button (in same location)
Also for some reason I was able to hit update today, and just sent a text without minimizing the keyboard... first time in like 3 weeks

I have the same issue with the Marketplace.. it's been telling me I have 6 updates for over a month now. Getting real old.

mdotgarcia said:
I have the same issue with the Marketplace.. it's been telling me I have 6 updates for over a month now. Getting real old.
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You also can't click the "6 updates" link?
Note that the current version of Marketplace has a bug that prevents you from installing updates for trial apps. However, that link should be clickable and the update process should be start normally; it only doesn't really update the trial apps.

rule no 1 for technology: if you find a weird bug, restart the device and see if it persists...

same here! i have 8 apps that just wont update. although i can press the update button they all look like they are updating but then they never do and im always left with 8. i suspect that this is because i have mainly trial version and i dont think these update, and of the free stuff that i have got all update ok!

if you want to update them, just uninstall them from the phone, then reinstall them again by finding it in the market place.

The Gate Keeper said:
if you want to update them, just uninstall them from the phone, then reinstall them again by finding it in the market place.
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This would work, since at one time I had 3 updates to do and uninstalled many programs, and then the number changed to 1. But if you are unable to click the update button, you don't know which programs to update.
I had no trails on my phone.
for others that were having similar issues to mine, did you have the same texting issue?

yea it was more for davidebanks. have you tried restarting the phone? i think i had this at one point, and just turning the phone off and back on fixed it.

The Gate Keeper said:
yea it was more for davidebanks. have you tried restarting the phone? i think i had this at one point, and just turning the phone off and back on fixed it.
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I have restarted phone plenty of time, haven't reset it thought, but as I mentioned it happened to start working again recently

lol dang. well in all honesty, with the jan update coming, it could fix the issue. if not... who knows.

This is a strange one, I have seen one or two bugs on my HD7 (garbled screen, random soft resets) but never this one.
Edit: Do all the people with this problem have a Samsung device?

[Q] Nexus 5 Dialer problem.

I have a weird bug/problem. On my nexus 5, whenever i hangup a phone call the end button and screen do not go away. The back button does not work but the home and recent apps does. Any help would be appreciated. I can upload a video of the problem. MODS: sorry if this is the wrong area. please move if necessary.

thepoetlives89 said:
I have a weird bug/problem. On my nexus 5, whenever i hangup a phone call the end button and screen do not go away. The back button does not work but the home and recent apps does. Any help would be appreciated. I can upload a video of the problem. MODS: sorry if this is the wrong area. please move if necessary.
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Having the same problem! really annoying!!! Was not how Nexus 4 was or any other phone I have used. There have been settings on some dialers of what to do after hanging up, like return to dialer, return to call log or home screen. None on this built apparently.

bjjere said:
Having the same problem! really annoying!!! Was not how Nexus 4 was or any other phone I have used. There have been settings on some dialers of what to do after hanging up, like return to dialer, return to call log or home screen. None on this built apparently.
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I don't know what happened but mine seemed to either fix itself or was fixed when i erased play store app data.

I have that problem too (see attached photo). It's getting pretty annoying. Any ideas?

thepoetlives89 said:
I don't know what happened but mine seemed to either fix itself or was fixed when i erased play store app data.
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Had the same issue. This fixed it. Thank you.
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oldmanwinter said:
I have that problem too (see attached photo). It's getting pretty annoying. Any ideas?
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Try wiping play store app data.

I tried wiping the just the general play store data before and it didn't fix the issue. Just wiped all play related data: magazine, books, etc and it solved the issue. Thanks
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My problem is eve weirder when I call someone it takes me to the homescreen and still makes the call but I can't access the dialer thing where you can hangup and stuff and when I get a call I can't answer it because it doesn't show up it just rings
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I have this screen issue too from time to time, exactly like the screenie above...button is just black.
I will try this fix...
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3's&7's said:
I have this screen issue too from time to time, exactly like the screenie above...button is just black.
I will try this fix...
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Mine helped clearing the Google Dialer data.

randomnoob83 said:
My problem is eve weirder when I call someone it takes me to the homescreen and still makes the call but I can't access the dialer thing where you can hangup and stuff and when I get a call I can't answer it because it doesn't show up it just rings
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i had the exact same issue, or more precisely :
I receive or pass a call. then, instead of going to the "in call" screen with the big red "hang up" button, i'm back to the home screen...
now this can happen, if i press the home button, but i don't. And if that was that, then first i would have the small "phone" logo in the upper left notification telling me i'm currently in call, and the "in call" screen would be accessible from the task manager, however the task manager displays absolutely nothing.... just like i wasn't making any call at all, except i can hear the person on the other side in my speaker.
Then i click on the big blue phone logo to get to the dialer screen, but i then get a screen which i never had before, with a black transparent background, proposing me to either use the default keyboard (if i click it i get the keyboard), either to "return to current call", and when i click it, i'm back to the homescreen... so the only way to hang up is to shut the phone down...
it's happened to me twice yesterday, but never before....
PS: just so we might find a common app that would cause the issue, i have installed on my N5 these apps :
dashclock
file manager
prochain bus
ridiculous fishing
sygic
today calendar
vlc
and thats all. Any of you have some apps in common ?

I also had the same issue during the first week or so...but with tym and aftr update the issue vanished!! Since 2014 i nvr faced this issue again!!
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Different Dialer problem
Hi,
I am rooted running beanstalk. But before flashing had stock rom then Purity.
This problem happened after flashing Purity ROM.
When I make or receive a call, my screen goes blank and I cannot do,anything to wake the phone, unless the other party ends the call and then the screen may wake up if I touch the screen?!
Anyone else, please help.

bagou01 said:
i had the exact same issue, or more precisely :
I receive or pass a call. then, instead of going to the "in call" screen with the big red "hang up" button, i'm back to the home screen...
now this can happen, if i press the home button, but i don't. And if that was that, then first i would have the small "phone" logo in the upper left notification telling me i'm currently in call, and the "in call" screen would be accessible from the task manager, however the task manager displays absolutely nothing.... just like i wasn't making any call at all, except i can hear the person on the other side in my speaker.
Then i click on the big blue phone logo to get to the dialer screen, but i then get a screen which i never had before, with a black transparent background, proposing me to either use the default keyboard (if i click it i get the keyboard), either to "return to current call", and when i click it, i'm back to the homescreen... so the only way to hang up is to shut the phone down...
it's happened to me twice yesterday, but never before....
PS: just so we might find a common app that would cause the issue, i have installed on my N5 these apps :
dashclock
file manager
prochain bus
ridiculous fishing
sygic
today calendar
vlc
and thats all. Any of you have some apps in common ?
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Exact same issue here. No app in common... Did you manage to fix it ?

Fixed mine by turning off developer options and then rebooting

[Q] Google Emojis not working on 4.4.2

I cant seem to get Emoji's to show up on google's keyboard like they used to prior to my update to 4.4.2
Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks! The phone is stock no changes whatsoever ..

vseslija said:
I cant seem to get Emoji's to show up on google's keyboard like they used to prior to my update to 4.4.2
Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks! The phone is stock no changes whatsoever ..
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where are you using the keyboard? when in hangouts the enter key will instead be a smiley face key for the emoji. but i think else where there will be an enter key with three little dots beneath it. long press it and the emoji will come up.

Oh DUH! It works only in hangouts! Thanks for your help!!!!

Black screen on incoming calls

I have a very strange problem on my Nexus 5.
Some times when i receive an incoming call, i hear the ringtone, the device vibrates but i dont see anything on my display. Just a black screen, Also pressing the power button, i see the lock screen, unlocking the phone will not show the call either. if i select the dialer application i get the screen in the dialer with 3 options:
1) use touch tone keypad
2)return to call in process
3)add call
By pressing "return to call in process" nothing happens.
The problem is gone after restarting the device.
I read somewhere that this may be a proximity sensor problem due to screen protectors. I removed mine, and it continued having the problem.
Is there anything i can do to fix it [reseting the phone will be the last resort].
Thanks

I encountered this problem too, and now a new problem is my phone dead, cant turn it on.
any advice?
tsangaris said:
I have a very strange problem on my Nexus 5.
Some times when i receive an incoming call, i hear the ringtone, the device vibrates but i dont see anything on my display. Just a black screen, Also pressing the power button, i see the lock screen, unlocking the phone will not show the call either. if i select the dialer application i get the screen in the dialer with 3 options:
1) use touch tone keypad
2)return to call in process
3)add call
By pressing "return to call in process" nothing happens.
The problem is gone after restarting the device.
I read somewhere that this may be a proximity sensor problem due to screen protectors. I removed mine, and it continued having the problem.
Is there anything i can do to fix it [reseting the phone will be the last resort].
Thanks
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danheng said:
I encountered this problem too, and now a new problem is my phone dead, cant turn it on.
any advice?
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Can you get into bootloader so you can flash the factory image? Did you press the power button for about 10-15 seconds to force boot first.

Mine boots up as supposed to. Today i didn't have the incident.
Is this not a common problem?
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Are you running stock or a custom ROM and if so what rom. Also if you could pull a logcat it could be easier to diagnose.
P.S. have you tried clearing data for the dialer app.

i am suffering from this issu haswell.

After a week of no incidents today i had the same problem again.
I am running vanilla android 4.2.2 by Google. No root no custom rom...
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How can i have the logcat?
Also clearing dialer data will impact my call log history?
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tsangaris said:
How can i have the logcat?
Also clearing dialer data will impact my call log history?
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If you are worried about losing your call logs, they can be backed up a ton of different ways. When I don't have root, I use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.CallLogBackupRestore&hl=en
Very lightweight and easy to use.

es0tericcha0s said:
If you are worried about losing your call logs, they can be backed up a ton of different ways. When I don't have root, I use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.CallLogBackupRestore&hl=en
Very lightweight and easy to use.
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Thanks for the tip!
I was talking to my brother today (he is a Nexus 4 owner) and he told me that after updating from 4.3 to 4.4 he had the same problem. He could only solve it by restarting his device. So i guess, this is a dialer bug. Clearing dialer data i dont think will help..

@op do you got Truecaller installed or any other app like that?

Z3US911 said:
@op do you got Truecaller installed or any other app like that?
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No nothing!
Especially on my Nexus 5, i dont mess things up. Everthing is running as the day i bought it, just installed some common applications (Ex. Facebook, weather prediction,etc.).

tsangaris said:
No nothing!
Especially on my Nexus 5, i dont mess things up. Everthing is running as the day i bought it, just installed some common applications (Ex. Facebook, weather prediction,etc.).
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mate i also faced this issue.So i tried uninstalling Truecaller and it worked for me.No more black screen.

Thanks for the suggestion but no application like this is installed on my device.
Maybe i will go throughout my apps once again..
My brother's N4 running 4.3 never had a problem. As soon as it updated to 4.4 he is having the problem.. Rarely but the problem is still there.
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This problem is getting on my nerves!!
I hope 4.4.3 solves a lot of bugs of N5! Its a shame that an excellent device like this causes such problems.
Also another problem my friends are reporting, is that, they call me, it rings 3 times and then it hangs like if the device is powered off or i canceled the call. And i dont even hear it ring, or find an answered call.
Is there a chance all these problems to be linked on my provider?

tsangaris said:
Thanks for the tip!
I was talking to my brother today (he is a Nexus 4 owner) and he told me that after updating from 4.3 to 4.4 he had the same problem. He could only solve it by restarting his device. So i guess, this is a dialer bug. Clearing dialer data i dont think will help..
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Same problem here, 4.4.2 original from Google.

SiteDispatch said:
Same problem here, 4.4.2 original from Google.
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I started thinking that maybe its caused by a 3rd-party application, but it seems that other Nexus 5 owners experiencing the same problem as well..

After some thinking i used factory reset on my device yesterday evening just to rule out the possibility below:
As soon as i have purchased the device Google Now wasn't available. So i read in a forum that in order to fix this you have to somehow trick the device that you are situated in a country where Google Now is available. So i downloaded an app (GPS fixing??) and positioned my device to UK, remove something and then install it again(Google services). That fixed the problem and Google Now was available.
Maybe something went wrong there and i was experiencing these problems..
So far so good. Then again to be sure if that was the problem i have to give it at least 2 weeks.
I will get back to you for the results.
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Facebook Messenger Quick Emoticon Button Failure

I saw this issue posted on another forum by someone else with no responses. I know many of you here probably don't have the Facebook messenger app installed/enabled because of the the reports of battery drain but I figured I would try my luck and ask anyway as I have this issue as well now. If you do have the app installed, or are familiar with how it works, there is a quick reply emoticon button (default is thumbs up) to the right of the chat box which you can press once to send the emoticon (or hold the button to make it bigger). Several months ago this stopped working for me on my lollop Sprint Note 5. One day I just noticed the thumbs up icon stopped working. Pressing it makes the button depress action but then does nothing. Holding it to make the thumb bigger does nothing. Changing the emoticon default to something other than a thumb does nothing. Since the app is baked into the OS I can't completely get rid of it without root (to my knowledge). I tried deleting the cache, then the data, then "uninstalling updates," then reinstalling the updates, but the problem remains. I have submitted many feedback reports to Facebook through the app but have received no response. I don't know what else I can do at this point. Is there a way to contact Facebook and actually get a response?Any other suggestions on how I can get this to work?

Yea it doesnt work for me either
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infamouzwt said:
Yea it doesnt work for me either
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Looks like this other guy is using AT&T and has the problem as well.... I really wish I could get a response from Facebook. Is there any way to roll back the app to see which version broke it? http://forums.androidcentral.com/fa...cebook-messenger-quick-emoji-reply-error.html

In case anyone has been following this (doubtful) it looks like the issue was caused by something I did in developer options. I don't know which specific option it was that broke that function but when I turned it off and restarted the phone thumb button is now working. I will have to go through the options to see exactly what the problem one was.