Asus ZenPad S Marshmallow update - Android General

Hi guys,
I thought is was a good idea to put Update related stuff into a separate thread.
So here we go
First question from my side, Can i stay rooted/xposed/selinux off for updating successful or do i need to Reset it? I dont really need root

Issues: I have brightness changing a lot and quickly, may it be an effect of doze?
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It doesn't sense the magnetic cover, it interprets as touch so, instead of going off screen, it increases brightness!
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Gianni said:
Issues: I have brightness changing a lot and quickly, may it be an effect of doze?
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It doesn't sense the magnetic cover, it interprets as touch so, instead of going off screen, it increases brightness!
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I have no problem with screen brightness changing or the on/off function from the magnetic cover, and have great battery life after the upgrade to marshmallow. My tablet had not been rooted and I am using a generic cover.
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The adaptive brightness is a "feature" of the Asus software Vivid Display, it attempts to change the brightness of the screen to somehow compensate for the darkness of the content. There is nowhere to turn it off. It does my head in, i was able to disable it with root before the update, and with the Marshmallow update you can use the debloater tool. Disable packages called VisualMaster and Splendid, that seems to fix it.

mrbeardy said:
The adaptive brightness is a "feature" of the Asus software Vivid Display, it attempts to change the brightness of the screen to somehow compensate for the darkness of the content. There is nowhere to turn it off. It does my head in, i was able to disable it with root before the update, and with the Marshmallow update you can use the debloater tool. Disable packages called VisualMaster and Splendid, that seems to fix it.
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Good to know, I will experiment. Usually I keep auto brightness and twilight app for the night, they may be conflicting too.
It's personal, but I hate vivid display [emoji4]
I solved the magnetic cover, the option is on setting but was defaulted to off
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What kind of battery life are we getting including screen on time?

For my use l was already satisfied with jb battery performance, and I don't see a great improvement.
But speed increment is very visible, I would say 20/30%
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Hello! How can we have multi user support on M? Thx
PG

One issue I have is that there are certain (non-media consumption) instances where the tablet will not automatically turn off the screen even though it is supposed to time out after 30 seconds of inactivity. Not a huge deal but since we are sharing...

macallik said:
One issue I have is that there are certain (non-media consumption) instances where the tablet will not automatically turn off the screen even though it is supposed to time out after 30 seconds of inactivity. Not a huge deal but since we are sharing...
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My kids have some games that do that, more than likely the game has a permission to Keep the screen awake, you might be able to deny this permission now with M installed. I haven't upgraded their tablets yet but once I do I will check for that permission.

My big issue also relates to brightness. I use on screen alerts so that the screen lights whenever I get an alert. The problem is that with MM the screen dims just before it times out and turns off. I think it did this in earlier versions of android but with MM the dimming effect is so great that the screen is unreadable. This problem occurs even with auto brightness off and with the screen plenty bright...except for the few seconds before it turns off. Any ideas on if this can be fixed would be appreciated.

wxman123 said:
My big issue also relates to brightness. I use on screen alerts so that the screen lights whenever I get an alert. The problem is that with MM the screen dims just before it times out and turns off. I think it did this in earlier versions of android but with MM the dimming effect is so great that the screen is unreadable. This problem occurs even with auto brightness off and with the screen plenty bright...except for the few seconds before it turns off. Any ideas on if this can be fixed would be appreciated.
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I don't get what are the screen alerts, but screen dimming and shining at random happens too.
I think we should be waiting the obvious update in a couple of months
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Gianni said:
I don't get what are the screen alerts, but screen dimming and shining at random happens too.
I think we should be waiting the obvious update in a couple of months
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The random screen dimming has been happening since I bought my tablet last year. It hasn't been fixed & probably never will.
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Update: Can't write to OTG USB drive; Nook FC; FBReader FC
Mm is a mixed bag for me, to the point where I would go back to rooted LP with Xposed if I could.
Biggest issue is that I can no longer write to an OTG drive. I'd prefer to use the SD card as internal storage and use OTG on the relatively rare occasions when I need to move files. I can read the OTG Ok, but not write. It doesn't seem to be a drive or cable issue; I've tried multiples of both.It *does* seem to be a MM issue, because my phone (LG G3, unrooted) has the same problem.
Second issue is thst both the Nook reader app and FBReader crash. Both work OK on other MM tabs (granted, they are rooted) and on my LG G3 phone (bone stock).
Just venting!
Update: the OTG issue is not as bad as I indicated. ES File Explorer Pro is a lot fussier than the ASUS native file manager. Once I grant access via the file manager, ES seems to read and write OK. I finally got FBReader to work by uninstalling the Premium version, installing the free version, and then upgrading again to Premium. Now the Nook issue is the only remaining problem, and I can work around that by stripping the DRM from my books using Calibre in the PC so I can access them via FBReader.

tjupille said:
Mm is a mixed bag for me, to the point where I would go back to rooted LP with Xposed if I could.
Biggest issue is that I can no longer write to an OTG drive. I'd prefer to use the SD card as internal storage and use OTG on the relatively rare occasions when I need to move files. I can read the OTG Ok, but not write. It doesn't seem to be a drive or cable issue; I've tried multiples of both.It *does* seem to be a MM issue, because my phone (LG G3, unrooted) has the same problem.
Second issue is thst both the Nook reader app and FBReader crash. Both work OK on other MM tabs (granted, they are rooted) and on my LG G3 phone (bone stock).
Just venting!
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In mine is even worse: it mounts the device but looks empty, will try different cases and apps
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I tried it again. Even with the MM update, there is severe battery drain while powered down. I charged to 100%, powered off and unplugged. Two days later booted up and battery shows 64%. Meanwhile my NEXUS N7 was turned off for 6 days and still shows 98% charge when booted up. Intolerable. No more Asus products for me.
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wtherrell said:
I tried it again. Even with the MM update, there is severe battery drain while powered down. I charged to 100%, powered off and unplugged. Two days later booted up and battery shows 64%.
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Wait. You said you powered it down and then later "booted up." So the unit was off, as opposed to sleeping? If so, then the problem isn't related to the OS, 'cause the OS isn't operating.. It's your battery. It's self-discharging too fast.

Is there MM update for CN version?
Hi all, i,ve just read that there is a MM updates for Z580CA, and it said we need to download it manually (not OTA) . But when i checked to the asus website there is only updated firmware for WW and JP Version,
So.. is the CN Version will have the updates soon? ( i don' know if it possible to change SKU, but i've read the update can only applied to a same SKU, ex, WW to WW)

tjupille said:
Mm is a mixed bag for me, to the point where I would go back to rooted LP with Xposed if I could. ...
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Check the parent thread for this as there is a way to revert back to LP.
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PMikeP said:
Wait. You said you powered it down and then later "booted up." So the unit was off, as opposed to sleeping? If so, then the problem isn't related to the OS, 'cause the OS isn't operating.. It's your battery. It's self-discharging too fast.
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Exactly. Battery or a short circuit. But it seems a short would have other, more disastrous consequences. Since it doesn't really fit this thread I am asking a moderator to move to the appropriate one.

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[Q] Tablet screen staying on when the netbook is "closed"

I distinctly remembering when i first got my dock that when i closed the tablet down tot eh keyboard, the screen automatically shut off. For some reason now, with Netformer and Prime 1.5, it no longer does. Anyone know of a fix? I cant even turn it off with the power button if its closed up.
I was having this problem when I had automatic brightness on. I'm on the same rom and kernel.
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Turn the touchpad off using the shortcut on the keyboard. Will keep the screen from coming back on when device is closed.
which shortcut is that?
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which shortcut is that?
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Ist on the physical keyboard where F3 would be on a PC. Between the Bluetooth and Screen Dim keys. I had the same problem and turning it off fixes it.
Ding911 said:
Ist on the physical keyboard where F3 would be on a PC. Between the Bluetooth and Screen Dim keys. I had the same problem and turning it off fixes it.
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Yep, that's the one I was referring to. Turning off the touchpad will solve the problem of the screen coming back on. At least until Asus completely fixes the issue with a firmware update. And hopefully that update includes a fix for the overall battery drain on the dock that many people, including myself, are reporting to have.
Mine stayed on a couple of time but it was a specific app keeping it awake .... cant for the life of me recall which app though

[q] major bugs in samsung droid charge

Hi. I write for AOL News and am looking for some feedback on the droid charge. I've used two different phones so far and found several bugs that no one has apparently been focusing on:
1.The camera/camcorder will freeze the entire phone sporadically forcing the user to reboot the system. This occurs about 1 in every 8 times the camera is used. especially if it's on more than a minute or two.
2. Clicking the 'Message' Icon will open the browser or even 'settings'. Again, forcing reboot.
3. The 'brightness' automatically changes to 0 even when the 'auto' option isn't selected and the phone isn't outside.
4. This one constantly happens; when in phone mode, the screen will go dark after only about 10 seconds and nothing will bring it back except hitting the power button. I've been told you're supposed to be able to 'shake' the phone to awake it out of sleep mode but this is not the case. Additionally, if you've set the power button to end calls, the phone will sometimes end calls on the first push and sometimes not.
The phone could be a great device but it's obvious there are SERIOUS design flaws inherent in the OS.
nikchapman said:
Hi. I write for AOL News and am looking for some feedback on the droid charge. I've used two different phones so far and found several bugs that no one has apparently been focusing on:
1.The camera/camcorder will freeze the entire phone sporadically forcing the user to reboot the system. This occurs about 1 in every 8 times the camera is used. especially if it's on more than a minute or two.
2. Clicking the 'Message' Icon will open the browser or even 'settings'. Again, forcing reboot.
3. The 'brightness' automatically changes to 0 even when the 'auto' option isn't selected and the phone isn't outside.
4. This one constantly happens; when in phone mode, the screen will go dark after only about 10 seconds and nothing will bring it back except hitting the power button. I've been told you're supposed to be able to 'shake' the phone to awake it out of sleep mode but this is not the case. Additionally, if you've set the power button to end calls, the phone will sometimes end calls on the first push and sometimes not.
The phone could be a great device but it's obvious there are SERIOUS design flaws inherent in the OS.
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I haven't experienced any of the problems you bring up.
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1. Are you sure that you are not pressing the power button while in the camera application. Doing so will toggle the screen lock and appear to freeze the phone.
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I haven't experienced any of those issues either.
As for number 4, I think that was a conscious design decision. I don't really like it either, but you can use Tasker or Locale to detect when you're in a call and change your timeout to whatever you want.
nikchapman said:
Hi. I write for AOL News and am looking for some feedback on the droid charge. I've used two different phones so far and found several bugs that no one has apparently been focusing on:
1.The camera/camcorder will freeze the entire phone sporadically forcing the user to reboot the system. This occurs about 1 in every 8 times the camera is used. especially if it's on more than a minute or two.
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Have not experienced on my stock Charge nor on my rooted Charge. Just tried both to try to get this to happen.
2. Clicking the 'Message' Icon will open the browser or even 'settings'. Again, forcing reboot.
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Never had this issue on either phone.
3. The 'brightness' automatically changes to 0 even when the 'auto' option isn't selected and the phone isn't outside.
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When you have the auto brightness turned off you can push and hold the notification bar and slide your finger to the right or left to raise/lower brightness. Is it possible you are doing this?
4. This one constantly happens; when in phone mode, the screen will go dark after only about 10 seconds and nothing will bring it back except hitting the power button. I've been told you're supposed to be able to 'shake' the phone to awake it out of sleep mode but this is not the case. Additionally, if you've set the power button to end calls, the phone will sometimes end calls on the first push and sometimes not.
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The phone isn't supposed to be waken by shaking it. You can change the time-out timing through the settings. I've never hung up the phone via the power button so I can't even comment on that one.
The phone could be a great device but it's obvious there are SERIOUS design flaws inherent in the OS.
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Out of curiosity, are you on EE04?
I have not experienced any of these on the 3 months with my phone. It locked up maybe once on the camera but never more than that.
I've had none of these issues and furthermore I second the above thoughts regarding locking three camera and the status bar brightness.
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Count me in the camp that says I havent seen any of those issues. As far as the camera goes, the only issue is the substandard SD card that Sammy sends. You cannot record in HD because the card speed is too slow.
All the other issues you are seeing are unique.
Search these forums for them, if others have had the problem you will find someone asked about it.
If you do find them, I am sure that they will be very isolated.
I couldn't say about a totally stock phone as I flashed mine to gummy 1.9.1 on its very first boot, but I have never had a single problem with my phone.
I absolutely LOVE this thing, I have owned a TON of phones and IMHO this is hands down the best phone I've ever owned.
My boss bought a new Bionic last Friday and after playing with it for the day Friday I wouldn't swap my phone even for the Bionic (among other things, the screen SUCKS on the Bionic). My boss doesn't like it either, he is returning it tomorrow.
~John
Never experienced number 1,2 or 4. But I have experienced number 3. Only happens though every couple of weeks. Hardly ever basically. It is weird though. I have no idea why my brightness changes even with my auto brightness off. Still a great phone though.
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kelmar13 said:
Have not experienced on my stock Charge nor on my rooted Charge. Just tried both to try to get this to happen.
Never had this issue on either phone.
When you have the auto brightness turned off you can push and hold the notification bar and slide your finger to the right or left to raise/lower brightness. Is it possible you are doing this?
The phone isn't supposed to be waken by shaking it. You can change the time-out timing through the settings. I've never hung up the phone via the power button so I can't even comment on that one.
Out of curiosity, are you on EE04?
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Omg just read your post about the auto brightness. Never knew that. Thanks!
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piizzadude said:
As far as the camera goes, the only issue is the substandard SD card that Sammy sends. You cannot record in HD because the card speed is too slow.
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Mine must have come with a different card as I have had no problem recording in HD (I just tried it again to make sure)
ms0chez said:
Omg just read your post about the auto brightness. Never knew that. Thanks!
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Lol, anytime!
It's a feature I don't think I could live without now.
I can honestly agree with ur first concern. My camera is wonky. I can take pics all day without flash enabled. But I turn on the flash and try to focus (tap to focus), and as soon as the pic is snapped, the screen goes black, causing me to do a battery pull. Happened to me on my former Charge, my current replacement Charge and my wife's Charge. Happened on stock unrooted, stock rooted, and with custom Roms on all firmware versions. And I can easily replicate it.
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Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
nikchapman said:
Hi. I write for AOL News and am looking for some feedback on the droid charge. I've used two different phones so far and found several bugs that no one has apparently been focusing on:
1.The camera/camcorder will freeze the entire phone sporadically forcing the user to reboot the system. This occurs about 1 in every 8 times the camera is used. especially if it's on more than a minute or two.
2. Clicking the 'Message' Icon will open the browser or even 'settings'. Again, forcing reboot.
3. The 'brightness' automatically changes to 0 even when the 'auto' option isn't selected and the phone isn't outside.
4. This one constantly happens; when in phone mode, the screen will go dark after only about 10 seconds and nothing will bring it back except hitting the power button. I've been told you're supposed to be able to 'shake' the phone to awake it out of sleep mode but this is not the case. Additionally, if you've set the power button to end calls, the phone will sometimes end calls on the first push and sometimes not.
The phone could be a great device but it's obvious there are SERIOUS design flaws inherent in the OS.
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Sounds like you have some sort of agenda. Seeing as how nobody here so far has experienced this issues your referring to, I would say nothing is "obvious" at this point, nor do any of the issues above seem to be "serious", save for maybe the camera lockup issue but that very well could be user ignorance.
jpolzner said:
Sounds like you have some sort of agenda. Seeing as how nobody here so far has experienced this issues your referring to, I would say nothing is "obvious" at this point, nor do any of the issues above seem to be "serious", save for maybe the camera lockup issue but that very well could be user ignorance.
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I think the fact that he is a journalist with some very pointed questions is the dead giveaway for his agenda. He's looking for a sensationalist angle to play for an article. Whether it's against Verizon or Samsung, I don't know, but it's pretty certain he came here with an agenda.
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Sounds like you have some sort of agenda. Seeing as how nobody here so far has experienced this issues your referring to, I would say nothing is "obvious" at this point, nor do any of the issues above seem to be "serious", save for maybe the camera lockup issue but that very well could be user ignorance.
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Well put, I agree 100%
~John
never experienced those issues either..probably a android issue..
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I've had my Charge for about three months. I ran bone stock EE4 for a few weeks and have been using the various iterations of Humble Roms ever since. I never encountered any of the 4 issues brought up by the OP.
As for HD recording, I recall posts mentioning that some phones shipped with class 2 and some with class 4 sd cards. I got a class 4 card in mine and I've never had an issue with recording HD. Likely the source of the recording issue.

Nexus 5 extremely slow and stutter from boot after screen replacement

Hi, I replaced myself the screen (preassembled screen+digitizer+frame). After the replacement everything worked perfectly for like two hours when i rebooted it, from then on it is extremely laggy and stutters from boot animation, and when I press the power button (or when the screen shuts down), the phone itself shut down. In bootloader it doesn't seem to have problems.
I checked every connection inside the device (I've disassembled ad reassembled it several times).. thinking of a software problem, I've flashed marshmallow stock rom frist, and kitkat 4.4.4 then... but it's the same with any factory image.
Maybe I damaged something on the mainboard?
I also made a video to explain the problem:
with a lot of patience I set up a google account and downloaded cpu-z to see if maybe temperature sensor where giving wrong information to the system, but they're fine and everything seems to work propely aside from the stutter.
thanks to anyone who will help me, I'm almost giving up
RedMaio said:
Hi, I replaced myself the screen (preassembled screen+digitizer+frame). After the replacement everything worked perfectly for like two hours when i rebooted it, from then on it is extremely laggy and stutters from boot animation, and when I press the power button (or when the screen shuts down), the phone itself shut down. In bootloader it doesn't seem to have problems.
I checked every connection inside the device (I've disassembled ad reassembled it several times).. thinking of a software problem, I've flashed marshmallow stock rom frist, and kitkat 4.4.4 then... but it's the same with any factory image.
Maybe I damaged something on the mainboard?
I also made a video to explain the problem:
with a lot of patience I set up a google account and downloaded cpu-z to see if maybe temperature sensor where giving wrong information to the system, but they're fine and everything seems to work propely aside from the stutter.
thanks to anyone who will help me, I'm almost giving up
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It's probably touch lag from the new screen, u probably got a bad one, contact who sold it to u, get a new one
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soupysoup said:
It's probably touch lag from the new screen, u probably got a bad one, contact who sold it to u, get a new one
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I thought of that, but the fact that the haptic feedback (like the one you have entering app drawer, or returning home) is perfectly sync without lags made me think the touch was ok... and even twrp recovery was working smoothly (coudn't show in the video since I factory flashed kitkat)
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I thought of that, but the fact that the haptic feedback (like the one you have entering app drawer, or returning home) is perfectly sync without lags made me think the touch was ok... and even twrp recovery was working smoothly (coudn't show in the video since I factory flashed kitkat)
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What about stock Marshmallow?
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What about stock Marshmallow?
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with 6.0 shuts down after boot animation (and reproduces it stuttered like the kitkat one in the video).
Right after the screen replacement, stock marshmallow was working fine for a while
That's very strange indeed, OK so try this, go into developer setting and check disable HW overlays, and check force GPU rendering, this will make the phone use the GPU for UI stuff, possibly fixing ur studdar, let me kno
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soupysoup said:
That's very strange indeed, OK so try this, go into developer setting and check disable HW overlays, and check force GPU rendering, this will make the phone use the GPU for UI stuff, possibly fixing ur studdar, let me kno
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OK, I've just tried... can't tell any differences.
I was thinking that the main way to solve this could be to investigate on the fact that turning off the display (both with power button or by itself after 30sec), shuts down the entire device. Could this be an hardware failure? (maybe generated by a physical damage that I caused)
thank you BTW
RedMaio said:
OK, I've just tried... can't tell any differences.
I was thinking that the main way to solve this could be to investigate on the fact that turning off the display (both with power button or by itself after 30sec), shuts down the entire device. Could this be an hardware failure? (maybe generated by a physical damage that I caused)
thank you BTW
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That's very weird, what did u replace, and how did u do the replace, did u do the frame as well, and when u took the batt out did it come out easy it did u fight with it, I've heard cases of this happening, and other issues caused by damaging the battery during a fix
PS, no problem man, I know exactly how u feel lol
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That's very weird, what did u replace, and how did u do the replace, did u do the frame as well, and when u took the batt out did it come out easy it did u fight with it, I've heard cases of this happening, and other issues caused by damaging the battery during a fix
PS, no problem man, I know exactly how u feel lol
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I bought a pre-assembled frame-display-touch. The battery came out easily even if I slightly forced it in the bottom. Anyway before replacement the battery was completely discharged... it has been completely discharged for almost two months since I broke the lcd in September. Left the phone disassembled on the desk for two days. After reassemble I plugged in a 2A Samsung charger to fill it up... initially everything was working properly, made a few photos with both cameras to check, a call and some random checks.. still on charge. On the second call I made, the microphone stopped working, so was the third... turned off the device, back on and everything was messed up like it is now.
Well a battery failure could actually make sense...
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hey i have exactly the same problem with my nexus 5, i haven't opened it neither changed battery or screen but i'm suffering the same issue since a few days ago. have you managed to find a fix?. in my case it just started to do that suddenly. as in the video is totally unusable, i reinstalled latest stock firmware throught the recovery menu but with no luck, everything is ultra slow now
RedMaio said:
I bought a pre-assembled frame-display-touch. The battery came out easily even if I slightly forced it in the bottom. Anyway before replacement the battery was completely discharged... it has been completely discharged for almost two months since I broke the lcd in September. Left the phone disassembled on the desk for two days. After reassemble I plugged in a 2A Samsung charger to fill it up... initially everything was working properly, made a few photos with both cameras to check, a call and some random checks.. still on charge. On the second call I made, the microphone stopped working, so was the third... turned off the device, back on and everything was messed up like it is now.
Well a battery failure could actually make sense...
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pyroxine said:
hey i have exactly the same problem with my nexus 5, i haven't opened it neither changed battery or screen but i'm suffering the same issue since a few days ago. have you managed to find a fix?. in my case it just started to do that suddenly. as in the video is totally unusable, i reinstalled latest stock firmware throught the recovery menu but with no luck, everything is ultra slow now
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I didn't fix it eventually... but from my experience in fixing PCs, I believe that it could actually be a power issue related to either the battery or some power circuit.
If you've nothing to lose and some dollars to spend, you could try a new battery and see if it works!

EMUI 5 annoying bug

After turning on power saving mode then turning it off, brightness is changing when opening some apps like dialer and google chrome. Similar to EMUI 4.1 when power mode was set to smart but it is happening even when off in EMUI 5.
Before turning on power saving mode for the first time, brightness was always constant.
spix123 said:
After turning on power saving mode then turning it off, brightness is changing when opening some apps like dialer and google chrome. Similar to EMUI 4.1 when power mode was set to smart but it is happening even when off in EMUI 5.
Before turning on power saving mode for the first time, brightness was always constant.
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It's a known issue and was reported over a month ago on b317.
It happens without ever using power saver on some phones
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clsA said:
It's a known issue and was reported over a month ago on b317.
It happens without ever using power saver on some phones
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In emui 4.1, brightness is supposed to reduce in some apps whilst set to 'smart'
In emui 5 when you enabled power saving mode, it reduces the overall brightness. But when you turn it off, the overall brightness goes back to normal but now the brightness is acting like it did in emui 4.1 whilst set to smart. It reduces in some apps. Tried restarting phone but doing the same thing.
I'm using Chinese rom b368 released 2 days ago
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It's a known issue and was reported over a month ago on b317.
It happens without ever using power saver on some phones
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Is there any fix? Really annoying me every time I open up chrome the brightness changes, then again when you exit it. How do bugs like this even get past testing, so obvious.
Also is your option for reducing screen resolution working? Doesn't seem to do anything for me, worked fine in 4.1. Now it just stays at 1920x1080 when I enable it instead of dropping to 1280x720
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Also is your option for reducing screen resolution working? Doesn't seem to do anything for me, worked fine in 4.1. Now it just stays at 1920x1080 when I enable it instead of dropping to 1280x720
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Not working, noticed that too!
This is probably due to the fact that EMUI 5 is still in it's Beta stage and has allot of bugs that need to be ironed out before it's commercial release.
DarkGuyver said:
This is probably due to the fact that EMUI 5 is still in it's Beta stage and has allot of bugs that need to be ironed out before it's commercial release.
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On second thought I believe that screen brightness and connected power management is managed much worse then under EMUI 4. Power saving is accessible only through settings and it takes over screen brightness management completely. Besides it doesn't work well.
piskr said:
On second thought I believe that screen brightness and connected power management is managed much worse then under EMUI 4. Power saving is accessible only through settings and it takes over screen brightness management completely. Besides it doesn't work well.
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Hopefully the actual release of Nougat with fixes these problems.
@spix123 putting brightness too 100% works as a temp workaround
clsA said:
@spix123 putting brightness too 100% works as a temp workaround
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Yep but that's no go indoors, personally I always leave brightness at around 60% unless its really bright outside
spix123 said:
Yep but that's no go indoors, personally I always leave brightness at around 60% unless its really bright outside
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I did it, you get use to it pretty quickly
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This is probably due to the fact that EMUI 5 is still in it's Beta stage and has allot of bugs that need to be ironed out before it's commercial release.
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I'm on the very latest China release which is much more frequent than international and the bug is still there. Hopefully its not one of those bugs that people aren't reporting enough and will be stuck in it for months
Where can I fill bug reports. Those things are annoying.
Brand new phone, updated to nougat throu HiCare. Brightness in chrome, gmail and file manager changes every time when I open them. Also the powersaving option with lower resolution doesnt work for me either.
spix123 said:
After turning on power saving mode then turning it off, brightness is changing when opening some apps like dialer and google chrome. Similar to EMUI 4.1 when power mode was set to smart but it is happening even when off in EMUI 5.
Before turning on power saving mode for the first time, brightness was always constant.
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I have the same issue, did you fix it?
I realized that lowest brightness level in EUMI 5 is brighter than in EUMI 4.1 ??
Really stupid bug that shows how poor emui developers are. Still in latest chinese developer rom, no sign that developers are even aware of the problem. Don't know how so few little people are reporting this, must be blind.
It should only happen when power saving mode is enabled like it did in older emui.
It causes so many problems. I have screen set to my preferred brightness then it dims so much when I open browser that I have to increase brightness every time. The only work around is to use 100% brightness all the time, then it does not dim the screen but this just a stupid waste of battery and bad for your eyes indoors.
clsA said:
It's a known issue and was reported over a month ago on b317.
It happens without ever using power saver on some phones
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Is it still there on latest EU rom?
I'm using latest chinese developer updated yesterday and still happening
spix123 said:
Is it still there on latest EU rom?
I'm using latest chinese developer updated yesterday and still happening
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Yeah its still there on emui 5.0 and 5.1 i have mate 9 pro and p10 plus and both of them has the same issues
Ok, now we are in november and the problem persists -_-

What benefits have you noticed from 9.5.7 OTA and what's still broken?

This is for a better understanding of where we are standing now. 9.5.7 was rather a significant hotfix, but did they deliver?
What benefits have you noticed from 9.5.7 OTA and what you think needs work still.
I already noticed pictures are more accurate on low light whlie also more popping and saturated in normal mode,
Also after receiving a phone call, the loudness and clarity could be told from 5 feet away without using loud speaker.
I wasn't really experiencing most of the other issues, so, what was fixed for you?
Ghost touches are fixed! As far as the camera goes... i haven't compared it yet, but people say its much much better. Ambient display was a bit buggy for me on 9.5.5. Sometimes it works, and other times it didn't, but after the update i am yet to see it not working. I really appreciate this update and hope for more improvements in the future.
Edit: Btw first time using a OnePlus device and im loving it so far. Only issue for me is lack of sd card slot when it has 2 sim slots.
Ambient display is fixed and camera has improved hugely, especially night mode... Huge improvement
Much better overall...
They claim to have improved touch response. Maybe better now with tempered glass protector.
Still difficult to pull down status bar while in a call.
Full screen games still got issues with getting statusbar visible.
A little more overnight drain... 5%... might take a few days to settle in again or something... don't know
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Still difficult to pull down status bar while in a call.
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I didn't know about that issue, it would be good for you to submit it it in OP forums. Meanwhile, Only if if you have rooted you can fix that by installing Renovate ICE magisk module and enable Statusbar peek in Rice Tweaks
GUGUITOMTG4 said:
I didn't know about that issue, it would be good for you to submit it it in OP forums. Meanwhile, Only if if you have rooted you can fix that by installing Renovate ICE magisk module and enable Statusbar peek in Rice Tweaks
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Yeah I posted it on the OP forums the first week the phone started shipping out and I am using the RICE. Thankfully they offer a work around.
Ambient display still broken for Nova Launcher and I'm sure for others as well, when unlocking it goes to black screen and only nav bar. Which as been reported by others. When ambient display disabled everything works fine.
Takes about 5 seconds to take a nightscape picture, I canĀ“t hold my hands steady for that long, so using regular mode for night photos which actually works surprisingly well. Still would like to have the option though.
*808*# to calibrate promixity sensor doesn't work. Unable to open the sensor calibration. And the old pocket mode isn't in settings anymore.
Conclusion is that while being carried in my pocket screen goes on very often.
Anyone else?
Warp charged is borked for me since 9.5.7, it changes between warp, normal and no charging about every 5 seconds, my old 5 cable does the same but funnily enough warp charge pops up with it, and my 5 dash charger works fine. And once the phone is about 90% the issue goes away completely. Also a factory reset didn't fix it and I know for sure I didn't have it on 9.5.5 because my phone vibrates every time it switches back to warp charge (which happens a lot and repeatedly as well as the animation on the lock screen) and its never done that before. (here is my post on the OP forums for any that want more info: https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/op-7-pro-warp-charging-not-working-anymore.1051041/)
I didn't see the ghost touch issue on 9.5.5, but right after booting into 9.5.7 I saw ghost touches
I have disabled NFC now and have not seen it since
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Warp charged is borked for me since 9.5.7, it changes between warp, normal and no charging about every 5 seconds, my old 5 cable does the same but funnily enough warp charge pops up with it, and my 5 dash charger works fine. And once the phone is about 90% the issue goes away completely. Also a factory reset didn't fix it and I know for sure I didn't have it on 9.5.5 because my phone vibrates every time it switches back to warp charge (which happens a lot and repeatedly as well as the animation on the lock screen) and its never done that before. (here is my post on the OP forums for any that want more info: https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/op-7-pro-warp-charging-not-working-anymore.1051041/)
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Try charging while the phone is off, let the battery drain low, plug it for 1.5 hour. If it goes up to 100% in that time, then its not a hardware malfunction but an OS bug
nickname_marco said:
*808*# to calibrate promixity sensor doesn't work. Unable to open the sensor calibration. And the old pocket mode isn't in settings anymore.
Conclusion is that while being carried in my pocket screen goes on very often.
Anyone else?
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did you debloat you OS? I did using tomato debloater, and with it some some of the calibration/ engineering mode went away as they where part of the apps to be removed. if reflashing your OS wont solve it for you, you might have a broken sensor
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did you debloat you OS? I did using tomato debloater, and with it some some of the calibration/ engineering mode went away as they where part of the apps to be removed. if reflashing your OS wont solve it for you, you might have a broken sensor
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No, that's not what I wrote. Engineering mode app opens, but the calibration section doesn't work. It was working before. Someone else confirmed it to me in another thread.
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Try charging while the phone is off, let the battery drain low, plug it for 1.5 hour. If it goes up to 100% in that time, then its not a hardware malfunction but an OS bug
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I'll give that a try tonight and see what happens
I do not take many pictures I am glad to read though the camera may have improvements.
Noticed no changes so far.

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