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Hi, guys, I've been hesitating whether to buy or not the HTC 7 Pro over the last 7-8 months. I've been waiting so far for the device to get mature and any manufacturing defects/flaws to show up (if any).
So, guys, you've been using the device for 7-8 month now (some of you rigorously) and your feedback will be important to me.
How's the device holding up? How's the hinge mechanism holding up? Any signs of wear after 7-8 months of use? How's the sliding mechanism holding up? Are there any indications that the phone will fall apart soon?
Any problems at all? Please post here.
Ive used it for 8 months now, and i love it. No problems at all on the hardware
mine holds very good. i like the battery life of it. and the whole phone is made of good materials, the mechanism is really good, and it looks like it is build for some years to hold, and some rough use also the phone is worth all the money
and i have the latest RTM build of the OS (7720) with it the phone gets even better than on the stock version of the OS.
Been using 7pro since March, no major problems to report. I work in construction so the phone has to cope with less than perfect enviroments. Keep it in a sock, use a screen protector. There appears to be some sort of protective coating on the battery cover that has started to rub off, but other than that I can report that it is an excellent quality phone and I see no reason (at present) why it won't last the 24months of the contract.
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fashion_m said:
Hi, guys, I've been hesitating whether to buy or not the HTC 7 Pro over the last 7-8 months. I've been waiting so far for the device to get mature and any manufacturing defects/flaws to show up (if any).
So, guys, you've been using the device for 7-8 month now (some of you rigorously) and your feedback will be important to me.
How's the device holding up? How's the hinge mechanism holding up? Any signs of wear after 7-8 months of use? How's the sliding mechanism holding up? Are there any indications that the phone will fall apart soon?
Any problems at all? Please post here.
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i only have a problem with the back cover, it seems that is painted in grey and not the original color of the metal plate. and now after just 2 months of careful use. the letters on the cover are fallen out i a cant find them. and the color splits...
Has somebody the same problem like me???
but still a good phone.
Hey there
Yes, I had to send mine back in under warranty. The unit had an internal memory error and would get stuck in a constant boot loop.
The phone is built well, so it was a shock when it stopped working.
I can only say 2 bad things about this phone.
1) the capactive buttons are really annoying. Its very easy to brush past them and bring up Bing
2) WP7 sucks, its really good and bloody terrible at the same time.
Sent from my 7 Pro T7576 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
mainly software bugs. The phone has managed to freeze up a couple of times, requiring battery pull; and it does get pretty hot while using gobs of data. Still, its far more refined than my TP2
Dinchy87 said:
the letters on the cover are fallen out i a cant find them.
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Same issue with mine. Doesn't look too bad though. Other than that, had mine 5 months and had no issues at all.
Personally, I don't like the capacitive buttons.. and I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with the search button!
Also, I don't know if anyone else has this problem..
If my keyboard is slightly moved/nudged, it wakes the phone up. See video..
http://www.twitvid.com/CHP21
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Also, I don't know if anyone else has this problem..
If my keyboard is slightly moved/nudged, it wakes the phone up. See video..
http://www.twitvid.com/CHP21
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I have the same problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQ1nK3cutY
Now a couple of months later i see some issues, if i plug my htc 7 pro to the charger, the UI staggers, i dont know to describe it. it feels and looks like 2 frames per second if i slide thru the start screen. i think this is a software bug. because the battery statistics app (homebrew) says that it uses only 171MB of memory, from the 571MB. so it could not be a memory issue.
Dinchy87 said:
Now a couple of months later i see some issues, if i plug my htc 7 pro to the charger, the UI staggers, i dont know to describe it. it feels and looks like 2 frames per second if i slide thru the start screen. i think this is a software bug. because the battery statistics app (homebrew) says that it uses only 171MB of memory, from the 571MB. so it could not be a memory issue.
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What's your firmware version?
Do you have a software that measures the CPU usage?
Try resetting the phone.
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What's your firmware version?
Do you have a software that measures the CPU usage?
Try resetting the phone.
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i have a custom ROM from ansar which is tango 8773, bootloader still 1.22.2250.0, 5.71.09.02a_22.51.50.21U ROM. i tried to restart the phone but still the same. i have this battery meter app where i can see how many RAM is used, but not a CPU meter app and it looks like the CPU is doing something in the background for the whole time of charging, it happens not in the first second i plug in my phone, but in the first 5 minutes and then until i unplug it it doesnt stop. it is really a big bug. the scrolling on the start screen is in WP7 really fast but on charging it is like 2-3 fps. but i dont touch my device now until it is charged...
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Now a couple of months later i see some issues, if i plug my htc 7 pro to the charger, the UI staggers, i dont know to describe it. it feels and looks like 2 frames per second if i slide thru the start screen. i think this is a software bug. because the battery statistics app (homebrew) says that it uses only 171MB of memory, from the 571MB. so it could not be a memory issue.
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If I recall correctly, when this happened to me, it turned out to be the battery affecting the phone's performance, whenever it was being charged.. I had loads of batteries from my Touch Pro 2 days; after swapping it out for another one, the phone no longer gets hot during a charging session, and performance remaind smooth as silk.
PS: The faulty battery HATED my TouchPad charger; most of the spares charge quick, and without fail.
i have a lot of problems with my HTC 7 pro. keyboard lights and the 3 butons light verry porr
Diepvriezer said:
i have a lot of problems with my HTC 7 pro. keyboard lights and the 3 butons light verry porr
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What do you mean "keyboard lights"? Does it light all the time? Even when the phone is closed? But if it is closed, how can you see whether it lights?
Install this app: WinPhone Info Free. Go to Miscellaneous. See the "Keyboard deployed" section. Is is "Yes" or "No" ?
Went to unlock my phone this morning off the charger and the screen is totally dead. Couldn't unlock or do anything to it or even see what was going on, called Google and ordered a replacement ASAP.
Went through the not fun task of doing a nandroid backup without seeing what was on the screen and doing some trickery with screenshots then backing up my entire SD card.
However, here's the strange and potentially dangerous thing that I noticed later when I got home this evening. I went to look at the phone and go to a fastboot flash with the factory images and went to touch the bottom of the screen. When I went to do so, to the little bit of the left of the LED light was a SUPER hot portion of the phone. I almost burnt my finger it was so hot.
Not sure what to do about the issue, I feel like if I just call the support line they won't actually take in my concern legitimately. Any suggestions?
thats something quite strange
let us know what google says about RMA and this issue
Agree, maybe it's just your phone, maybe it's all the batch. Which batch/model do you have?
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kentoe said:
Went to unlock my phone this morning off the charger and the screen is totally dead. Couldn't unlock or do anything to it or even see what was going on, called Google and ordered a replacement ASAP.
Went through the not fun task of doing a nandroid backup without seeing what was on the screen and doing some trickery with screenshots then backing up my entire SD card.
However, here's the strange and potentially dangerous thing that I noticed later when I got home this evening. I went to look at the phone and go to a fastboot flash with the factory images and went to touch the bottom of the screen. When I went to do so, to the little bit of the left of the LED light was a SUPER hot portion of the phone. I almost burnt my finger it was so hot.
Not sure what to do about the issue, I feel like if I just call the support line they won't actually take in my concern legitimately. Any suggestions?
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On my Transformer Infinity, sometimes the screen won't turn on at all. On a few occasions, if I press Power enough times, I get a glimpse of a message saying the Launcher process has stopped, but then my touchscreen doesn't register any input. The tablet is also sometimes running quite hot at those times. The only way I know to recover from this is press the Power button long enough to force a reboot, then everything is normal. Could this be what's happening? Do you know if the phone is still running under the black screen? Have you tried forcing a reboot, and did it work?
As for the hot phone, I've noticed my N5 does get a bit warm when I'm using it intensively (4G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and screen on all at the same time and in use) but not enough to burn me. Could be hard to tell which component is heating up like that since I think it could be the screen backlight, SoC or battery... Do let us know if you find out more.
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thats something quite strange
let us know what google says about RMA and this issue
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I had called them and reported the screen totally dead with lines streaking vertically and got a new replacement ordered. It wasn't until late last night when I got back and had the screen on in this dead mode that the bottom was extremely hot. I'll have to call them back and let them know
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Agree, maybe it's just your phone, maybe it's all the batch. Which batch/model do you have?
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Yeah hopefully, it definitely seems like it could be one of those things that could potentially start fire.The one I have is the LG-D820. Any more info I can provide?
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On my Transformer Infinity, sometimes the screen won't turn on at all. On a few occasions, if I press Power enough times, I get a glimpse of a message saying the Launcher process has stopped, but then my touchscreen doesn't register any input. The tablet is also sometimes running quite hot at those times. The only way I know to recover from this is press the Power button long enough to force a reboot, then everything is normal. Could this be what's happening? Do you know if the phone is still running under the black screen? Have you tried forcing a reboot, and did it work?
As for the hot phone, I've noticed my N5 does get a bit warm when I'm using it intensively (4G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and screen on all at the same time and in use) but not enough to burn me. Could be hard to tell which component is heating up like that since I think it could be the screen backlight, SoC or battery... Do let us know if you find out more.
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Yeah, no its definitely dead. There were streaked lines across it, rebooted it multiple times. I ended up going into the bootloader and recovery via adb/fastboot and all that jazz. It eventually just would not work now.
In regards to the hot part I definitely think it was the lower part of the screen. It was quite literally half an inch away from the LED to the left. Was super super hot then once I shut the defective screen off (I could tell by the backlit light or whatever) it wasn't hot anymore after a minute or so.
Is it black/white? 16 or 32? When did you get it?
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Is it black/white? 16 or 32? When did you get it?
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32gb black version. I ordered it immediately when they announced it that day.
mine gets really warm when i'm doing a TWRP backup then it goes into bootloop after and wont cool down. i have to force it to power off from recovery and let it cool, but i've always seen it happen. i wonder if yours was attempting to boot over and over for hours and cooked itself.....? i have a launch day black 32gb too, running Cataclysm with Franco at the moment but it was doing it on rooted stock with stock kernel
I had to send my 19 day old 32Gb Red Nexus 5 in to LG for the same reason. I was using the phone and all of the sudden had vertical lines and the bottom of the screen got burn your fingers hot. Waiting to see what LG does with my phone. The only thin I can figure is the synaptics chip which controls the screen is bad. Its the only thing in that area that could get that hot. I also noticed when I first got my phone the glass in the same area looked like it had a slight wave in it. Didn't think anything of it at the time. I'll let you know how it goes.
Is RMA/replacement applicable for Rooted and unlocked devices?
I don't believe its an issue with developer phones as long as the issue wasn't caused by something you did like brick it by flashing a wrong radio or something like that. It has to be a manufacture defect to get it fixed for free.
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Bear3825 said:
I don't believe its an issue with developer phones as long as the issue wasn't caused by something you did like brick it by flashing a wrong radio or something like that. It has to be a manufacture defect to get it fixed for free.
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My device issue is related to power button. there is no software issue.
The power button is rattling since from the purchase of the device.
Hope my device gets repaired.
Like I said. Hardware issues that are production faults should be covered.
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Hi There,
This is the first time i've been so stuck i need to ask for help, so here it goes:-
my wife has a Galaxy S6 (sim free G920F) for around 25 days, Last night it prompted for an OTA update, which we allowed however today, all it is doing is complaining about Overheating and it needs to turn off, when putting it back on charge it says battery temp is too hot after it is left for a bit unplugged you can plug it back in and it will charge, but the error returns. saying it is too hot.
all since the OTA update
it currently on stock 6.0.1
I've tried to clear the cache and do a factory reset. but neither have resolved the problem.
anyone else had this since the update?
Many Thanks
Paul
Most likely culprit is the fast charging feature. Try disabling it and see if that resolves your problem.
Settings » Battery, disable fast charge
If that fixes your problem I'd say try a different cable and charger with quickcharge support.
You can also try turning phone off then trying to charge.
If it still gets crazy hot I'd say your battery is quickly going bad and you should get it replaced.
If it works fine without quickcharge at least you narrowed down the issue.
blandead said:
Most likely culprit is the fast charging feature. Try disabling it and see if that resolves your problem.
Settings » Battery, disable fast charge
If that fixes your problem I'd say try a different cable and charger with quickcharge support.
You can also try turning phone off then trying to charge.
If it still gets crazy hot I'd say your battery is quickly going bad and you should get it replaced.
If it works fine without quickcharge at least you narrowed down the issue.
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its not on fast charge when it occurred, still having same problem TBH I think its a borked update, anyone else having the same after the OTA update on stock 6.0.1?
zanthraxuk said:
its not on fast charge when it occurred, still having same problem TBH I think its a borked update, anyone else having the same after the OTA update on stock 6.0.1?
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Just power off device, then press power+vol up and home button. When you see samsung logo relase just power button. When you enter in recovery just navigate to wipe cache partition and confirm with power key then reboot device. This is good for device after ota update, battery drain problems etc
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What happens when you power the phone off completely and plug in charger?
See if it'll fully charge, this will rule out software / os issue.
Better to find this out first before your left with a dead phone for a couple weeks I've been there.
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Hi
It happened to my galaxy s7 and my friend's galaxy s6. Both in exact same time (after update)
After update devices start to overheat without a reason during normal usage (Web browsing etc).
And I mean really hot - this kind of temperature that makes me worry about hardware.
The weird thing is that even that I flashed previous ROM (downloaded from sammobile and flashed with odin) the problem still occur. I thought that wiping all data and cache and flashing a ROM should totally remove any change that has been done to device by update, but it seems like I "can't go back" to the state from before the issue.
I searched the whole Internet looking for that issue hoping that some people already started to complain about it and by this - confirming that this is a larger problem related to update. Right now this is the only topic that I found.
Could be that people are still not aware that their recent problems with overheating is not because of some crazy app lagging (that's what my friend first thought was).
In addition when you try to Google the issue you got 102910 tutorials about how to resolve overheating by disabling fast charge or not using phone in the sun... lol.
Strange. One possibility is that the temperature sensor(s) inside the phone are defective and reports inaccurate temperature readings. I had this problem with my ex-HTC One X+, it would report high temperatures when in reality it's nearly ice cold (during the winters), I had the service centre replace the sensors for me.
My S6's battery temperature never exceeds 40°c, while the CPU occasionally reaches 70°c, at that point, my S6 would perform an automatic soft reboot. But that's it though.
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Strange. One possibility is that the temperature sensor(s) inside the phone are defective and reports inaccurate temperature readings. I had this problem with my ex-HTC One X+, it would report high temperatures when in reality it's nearly ice cold (during the winters), I had the service centre replace the sensors for me.
My S6's battery temperature never exceeds 40°c, while the CPU occasionally reaches 70°c, at that point, my S6 would perform an automatic soft reboot. But that's it though.
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The temeryture is so high that I do not even need to measure it by app. The device burning my hand (literally) is enough indicator for me.
Yanush7 said:
The temeryture is so high that I do not even need to measure it by app. The device burning my hand (literally) is enough indicator for me.
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Have it checked out at the service centre.
Solved
I had to allow it to turn off and let it cool down. left it 4 hours, turned it back on, (in all honesty, trying to replicate the problem for RMA) and all fine, over heating message disappeared and no problems since really weird.
anyway thanks for all the help guys
Cheers
See attached image, that's normal on my S6 and my ex-S6 Edge.
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DaryllSwer said:
See attached image, that's normal on my S6 and my ex-S6 Edge.
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I think better app for cpu temp is CPUZ. It gives you more info.
Right now I'm on custom rom (superman rom) and with custom superkernel 1.4 and it seems like the phone overheats less - but I do not really know what are the good standard Temps for processor in basic use.
Yanush7 said:
I think better app for cpu temp is CPUZ. It gives you more info.
Right now I'm on custom rom (superman rom) and with custom superkernel 1.4 and it seems like the phone overheats less - but I do not really know what are the good standard Temps for processor in basic use.
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How do you know your phone 'overheats'? Does it show any message on the screen saying it is or does it self reboots? If it doesn't, it's not 'overheating', basic logic.
My S6 has 'overheated' only twice, it self rebooted.
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Red_shift said:
Hi everyone, my Note 2 shuts down when the temperature is moderately low (under 15 °C / 60 °F)
I thought it were a battery problem, since I still used the 2013 one with which the phone was originally shipped.
But buying a new one didn't solve the problem.
I tried swapping batteries with my girlfriend (who has the same model of phone, without the shut-down problem) but this didn't work too (regardless which battery I use, my phone shuts down, hers not) -- unfortunately I thought of swapping the batteries only after buying the new one...
So I thought it could be some sw problem and flashed a new ROM (crDroid 7.1.2)
I'm very pleased since this is much better than the stock ROM I had before, but the shut-down-in-low-temp problem still rears its ugly head (maybe a bit mitigated).
E.g. today I went skiing and carried the phone in the breast pocket of my jacket. Outside temp was about 2-5 °C, so it wasn't really cold, but the phone shut down.
When I tried to power it on, it wouldn't until I carried it home and put it on recharge.
After a few minutes of recharge, I could power it on and the battery was at 98%...
Any ideas of what the problem could be? Something hw?
If nothing else works, I theoretically could take off the display and digitizer of my phone and connect it to a third Note 2 (which display was broken by my girlfriend some time ago, otherwise it works fine), but I hope there is some simpler solution because I've never done something like that...
Thank you for your help!
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Any ideas what the problem might be ?
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Any ideas what the problem might be ?
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No, therefore I was asking.
Did you move my question here?
I posted it in the Note 2 forum, wouldn't it be more IT there?
Thank you!
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
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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
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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 can´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
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*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.