Greetings. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, and a Samsung Galaxy Note 9. I also have 2 Dell Windows laptops, one's an older 2017 Inspiron with Win10 Pro and the other is a 2021 Inspiron with Win 11 Pro. I use the Note 20U most of the time and I use the newer laptop more now but still use them both quite a bit.
Every so often, they will just go completely insane on me. It's usually the phone because I have that on me almost all the time, but the laptops aren't immune to the very strange behaviors that happen. It's kind of hard to explain because I don't really know where to start. With the phone, it's weird stuff like the accidental touch protection will virtually render my phone unusable for a time because there will be either a blue or red dotted circle on the screen that will go to wherever I touch the screen when I touch it but will go back to some other part of the screen when I take my finger off but it won't do anything when I touch the screen and I have to hold down the side and volume down buttons until it either powers down or gives me the power options screen. If it shuts down it's better than when it goes to the menu because when it goes to the power options menu. I get stuck there because it still won't recognize my touch or allow me to do anything so I have to hold down the buttons again until it just shuts off. Sometimes that will fix it but only for a few minutes and sometimes the circles will just still be there doing the same thing when the phone reboots. This will go on for hours to a day or 2 and then just not do it for awhile.
That's just one that sticks out to me but it will do other strange things like that to varying degrees and periods. Another one that gets my nerves stressing is it will make random phone and or video calls on either the phone's mobile system, and/or social media apps while I'm just trying to type text to send a message. Sometimes I'll lose full functionality of the touch screen and/or keyboard. Settings will get randomly changed on me... all kinds of very strange, annoying and sometimes damaging things concerning both data loss and personal issues with text messages and media being sent when it wasn't intended to and to other people than who it was intended for.
It's totally nuts and I know I sound totally nuts saying this but it actually seems like my devices are either being possessed or that somebody else is taking some kind of control of my devices. It happens at the same time to one, some, or all of them, it goes on anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days and then it just stops and they all behave for awhile. But then that dreadful day comes when it starts happening again.
I belong to a few forums that deal with device maintenance and various kinds of crapware and security issues and I visit them to keep up with things. I keep my devices updated and maintained fairly well for the common stuff. I take the advise I'm given in the forums, I run the apps they suggest, I run scans for all kinds of things that I read and find out about related to these issues and the devices all come back clean.
This has happened several times over the past 3 years or so and each time similar behaviors. It happens no matter which phone I use or which laptop I use. It even seem like the device(s) "fight" with me in real time.
I'm just a regular dude, I don't have any major stuff going on in my life that I think anyone would give a darn about. I'm not James Bond or some secret spy or witness. I'm not wealthy nor do I have any high, or even mediocre profile anything going on. I'm a construction painter with barely a pot to pee in and I have absolutely nothing highly exciting going on where I think anyone would have the slightest bit of interest in messing with my devices or my life in any other way so I don't see any reason why any entity would have a reason to either.
There are other really weird things that happen too but this is already turning into a long post and I'm tired and can't think of any off the top of my head right now. I just wanted to put this out there to see if anyone recognizes anything similar or has any input as to why this happens and has any other input on how it can be fixed, if it can or anything really. I am just now starting a log on when it happens and for how long and trying to keep better track of exactly what strange behaviors are actually happening but sometimes, and most of the time it's at the worst time because I'll be busy with work or other things going on and I forget what exactly was happening and for exactly how long it was by the time I get to a way to document it.
One last thing about it is that while I'm running scans and changing settings and trying to combat the madness, iy doesn't seem to change anything and sometimes even makes it seem to get worse, and then it just stops out of nowhere and it's like nothing had happened at all. except that I ended up sending a message to the wrong person or sent pictures or a video to someone who it wasn't meant for or I just deleted my entire music folder when I was trying to rename a file. Very very strange and unbelievable stuff, and yet it actually happens, and then just stops.
Try starting with one device and the specific issues. Devices don't go insane...
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Only had my Orbit 2 for a few days and already there are quite a few problems with it...most of which got resolved so not too bothered there
However there is one problem that I cant fix. Sometimes when I bring up the TouchFLO it will crash on the screen with the radio, copilot, alarm, etc. The text under the icons does not load and the only way to get out of it is by pressing the end call key.
Soft reset doesnt solve the problem, it did once but only temporarily.
Hard reset has solved it (don't know if the problem will come again), wouldn't mind too much about that except I did a hard reset about 2 days ago for another reason so it is clear the device is just screwing up somehow. I barely installed much software on it.
So i've only hard resetted once to see if I can solve the problem and so far its worked. Hope its not temporary.
If anyone could help me I'd be grateful
(P.S. The button with the end call key and 'OK' is a bit loose, I can jiggle it about slightly left and right...)
Never had this many problems with my Artemis and for a device worth over £300 (over $600) I really think this is unacceptable. First the drivers, and now small problems which screw up the device totally. HTC are messing up big time and I think with all their negative feedback O2 might just cut down on buying their products.
The only time I've ever had Touch Flo, well, the Touch Cube crash was due to my installing City Time Alarms. After uninstalling, everything went back to normal. Maybe a specific app was causing your woes?
I installed an old version of SKTools and did a registry cleanup, maybe that had something to do with it... It did delete a whole lot of stuff..
I remember the problem only occured after I installed SKtools. I did do a hard reset earlier today and that was because the device became slow.. but nothing to do with TouchFlo.
Anyway I have hard reset the device now so I should not be getting any more problems from it..
But I am getting worried about the deivce though, there are so many bugs with it! Like today when the alarm went off to wake me up, the GPRS was turned on for about 56 minutes and I was definately asleep so I couldn't have turned it on!
I am scared to install a program on it incase that likes to mess up my device!
Also, is it normal for the right buttons (end call/OK) to be a BIT wonky? Like you can move it a bit from left to right? They work perfectly fine and I doubt they will suddenly detach or something! If you shake the device you CANNOT hear the slighlty wonky keys or anything, but just got a bit worried cos the other keys opposite it (pickup/windows) is not wonky at all...
This device is not worth £300
At most I would say it is worth £250
It is just so full of bugs and I have never had these kinds of problems with the other 4 PDAs that I have owned in the past. The more higher tech you go, the more unreliable the device becomes. My XDA II which I owned about 2 years ago was the most reliable I've ever had. HTC are really screwing it up and I think they are more interested in their money than their customers. I hope they screw up big time and I mean big time. If it wasn't for XDA-Developers they would have been out of business a long, looong time ago.
With regards to HTC, they didn't screw up. Sounds to me, just like anything you buy, you got a lemon. I would exchange it for another unit, not only for the system instability but also the "defective" (loose) button.
I bought the item off eBay so I cannot return it
The button is fine though, its nothing major it only moves ever so slightly and I dont think theres any problem with it. It works perfectly fine, I shouldn't really have mentioned it in the first place!
The system instability is normal though I am sure, look at what other problems people are having with their devices that get resolved every day.
O2/HTC doesnt expect lots of users to install custom ROMS (well I haven't) or edit the registry so the devices will be more user friendly and if you play about with that it can screw up.
I thought the device is kinda bad but I guess i'm happy with it, If I just use it normally and stop trying new things out on it and stop using programs like SK tools (lol) then I'll be fine. And if I have any small problems I am sure they can get resolved on here.
Anyways I am only 15 so I am going to be happy with what i've got lol!
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Hi
Only had my Orbit 2 for a few days and already there are quite a few problems with it...most of which got resolved so not too bothered there
However there is one problem that I cant fix. Sometimes when I bring up the TouchFLO it will crash on the screen with the radio, copilot, alarm, etc. The text under the icons does not load and the only way to get out of it is by pressing the end call key.
Soft reset doesnt solve the problem, it did once but only temporarily.
Hard reset has solved it (don't know if the problem will come again), wouldn't mind too much about that except I did a hard reset about 2 days ago for another reason so it is clear the device is just screwing up somehow. I barely installed much software on it.
So i've only hard resetted once to see if I can solve the problem and so far its worked. Hope its not temporary.
If anyone could help me I'd be grateful
(P.S. The button with the end call key and 'OK' is a bit loose, I can jiggle it about slightly left and right...)
Never had this many problems with my Artemis and for a device worth over £300 (over $600) I really think this is unacceptable. First the drivers, and now small problems which screw up the device totally. HTC are messing up big time and I think with all their negative feedback O2 might just cut down on buying their products.
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I had the same problem. You actually have to let it sit for about 10 mins and it will load. If you close it, it might freeze for another 10 mins. After some time, the problem went away for reasons I cannot explain. Then, every time I select a button on the cube, the cube closes and I have to reopen it every time I want to use it.
Also, the bugs related with the "Word Completion" option, which does not function correctly, gave me a miserable experience with writing and typing. It slowed my writing and typing because I constantly have to correct bad guesses. I cannot turn it off either because the "Word Completion" option does not work. Sure I could go into the registry and mitigate the problem, but I returned it as a manufacturer defect.
I assume it will go back to HTC and I hope it will result in a response to fix the problems. For >$800 after tax, I would expect the purchase to function correctly.
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Yes the word completion is annoying, I can't turn it off either. It is annoying when you write smaller words such as 'sed' as opposed to 'said', the word completion decides to change it.. It is really annoying especially when you have to type on the move. Not to mention it uses up a whole lot of characters when you try to said a text message. It is much easier and quicker to write 'thru', it uses only 4 characters whereas the proper spelling of the word 'through' uses up 7 - nearly double. With a limit of 160 characters per message you will find that you will quickly reach that limit. I have quite a lot of free texts so I do not mind much but I hate it when it puts the incorrect word in the place!
Also with your TouchFLO problem, did you try hard resetting the device? I found that if you play about with the registry the phone quickly messes up. That is understandable but harmless registry modifications such as the 'ShowSIM' can even screw up your phone!
If a problem appears on my device can I give it to O2 to repair for a fee -- I do not have a warentee so if they agree to fix it for a fee only then that seems fair.
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I installed an old version of SKTools and did a registry cleanup, maybe that had something to do with it... It did delete a whole lot of stuff..
I remember the problem only occured after I installed SKtools.
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I found that if you play about with the registry the phone quickly messes up. That is understandable but harmless registry modifications such as the 'ShowSIM' can even screw up your phone!
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Maybe its just me, but while programs like sktools can simplify your life, I really hate the idea of a non-device specific program tweaking my registry. I like to do it myself so that I know exactly what goes in, and I can assess exactly what comes out. FYI: I've never had a crash due to registry mods (but in my early days (pre-Touch Cruise) of installing random cabs and fixes I did get crashes).
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...Also with your TouchFLO problem, did you try hard resetting the device?
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Just soft resets. I didn't want to wait 10+ hours to resync my emails, contacts, etc after a hard reset.
Not totally sure how to describe this, but my Optimus 3D seems to be registering a single tap on the on-screen keyboard as multiple presses, usually 2-3. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it more of an android issue rather than with the phone? Or could it possibly be resolved through the installation of an alternative keyboard from the market?
The issue seems to occur both when charging and when running on battery power, and occurs in all applications I've tried it in so far. (Browser, Market, YouTube, Messaging)
I'm just concerned there could be an issue with the screen, so I'd like to try and get it sorted sooner rather than later, since once you go past a week or two getting a faulty phone handset sorted becomes a nightmare with retailers.
Lagamorph said:
Not totally sure how to describe this, but my Optimus 3D seems to be registering a single tap on the on-screen keyboard as multiple presses, usually 2-3. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it more of an android issue rather than with the phone? Or could it possibly be resolved through the installation of an alternative keyboard from the market?
The issue seems to occur both when charging and when running on battery power, and occurs in all applications I've tried it in so far. (Browser, Market, YouTube, Messaging)
I'm just concerned there could be an issue with the screen, so I'd like to try and get it sorted sooner rather than later, since once you go past a week or two getting a faulty phone handset sorted becomes a nightmare with retailers.
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The screen of the phone is very very sensitive. What happens is that you touch the letter and then before you have the time to remove it the phone registers a continuing press. This happens because even if you dont tap with the same presure, the phone still picks up a presure and registers more taps. It isn't really something you should worry about.
Ahhh I see. Is there a way to reduce the sensitivity at all? It's a rather annoying bug and makes it next to impossible to type anything longer than just a few words using the on-screen keyboard.
Lagamorph said:
Not totally sure how to describe this, but my Optimus 3D seems to be registering a single tap on the on-screen keyboard as multiple presses, usually 2-3. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it more of an android issue rather than with the phone? Or could it possibly be resolved through the installation of an alternative keyboard from the market?
The issue seems to occur both when charging and when running on battery power, and occurs in all applications I've tried it in so far. (Browser, Market, YouTube, Messaging)
I'm just concerned there could be an issue with the screen, so I'd like to try and get it sorted sooner rather than later, since once you go past a week or two getting a faulty phone handset sorted becomes a nightmare with retailers.
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I would recommend you to compare your phone with another O3D if you can. If some other O3D's work nice for you, then probably it is a harware defect.
I have never experienced such a problem on mine.
Hm, I don't know anybody else with one, however the store I bought it from did have a demonstration unit so I can pop in and try out theirs to see if it also has the same issue. If not at least I can demonstrate the problem to them.
Lagamorph said:
Hm, I don't know anybody else with one, however the store I bought it from did have a demonstration unit so I can pop in and try out theirs to see if it also has the same issue. If not at least I can demonstrate the problem to them.
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Sounds like a plan to me
I had the same problem as the OP.
It was not from the beginning and started totally unexpected and there was a very noticeable difference before/after. Typing became almost impossible, had to do it veeery carefully.
However, a simple reboot solved my problem. Didn't happen to me again since...
Hi, totally new to Android after being with Apple a long time but loving my O3D except battery life but i'll live with that.
Does have a few niggles but it makes my iphone look sooo out dated!
Right, i have similar issue with letters duplicating but it only happens every now and then and is cured by restarting the phone.
Looks like a software glitch because typing on this phone is as good as when i use my iphone. I'm more than happy with the sensitivity.
I never thought of restarting the phone, but I've done it now and it seems to have fixed the problem. Now I just need to get used to the bigger screen then my crappy old iphone.
I love the screen size in general, though I downloaded a pinball game that only works in portrait which is not really playable because the phone is too heavy to hold only with the bottom.
Its certainly a lot easier to type than I expected coming from the N900. I really REALLY wanted something like the Optimus 3D but with a real keyboard, but sadly I can't see it happening. This "thinner is better" fad really winds me up, I prefer function over form any day of the week.
Speaking of typing, I certainly have had the key repeat problem - I thought it was a build up of grease on the touch screen confusing it. It was quite annoying as my first impression was that typing on this thing is almost as good as a hardware keyboard, then the key repeat issue surfaced. Lets see if firmware 10d fixes it.
update to HTC_IME and u wont have such problem anymore. I had same issue with standart LG keyboard
I'm having the same problem with my keyboard.
It started recently and it's very annoying to try to write a txt with a such sensitive response from the keyboard.
Restating the phone seems to have sorted the problem but, it's weird...
i had this same problem after using the phone perfectly for 2 weeks it suddenly started this annoying habit,i took it back to the carphone warehouse and they exchanged it,so far the replacement is fine.
so this is a problem ive had on and off for a long time. Basically my phone has these moments where its like the touch screen gets really confused. i touch one place, it registers another place. i tap the screen and it decideds im long pressing. other times it just spazzes out completely and i couldnt even begin to list the different things it starts to do. in the past, the only time it happened was when i plug it into an aux port in a car, in which case it would usually just spaz out in the music app i was using, now it tends to call and end and call and end the call a lot too. it wouldnt do it when i plugged normal headphones in though. used to, i would simply reflash or change roms. and the problem seemed to subside for a time. lately though, its gotten really bad. even on android revolution (stock and stable, no mods or anything) it just does really crazy things. lol i cant ignore this issue anymore, and when ive searched for the problem, i cant find anything specific to the inspire 4g. could it be a rom thing? or possibly just a shotty screen and wiring or some other hardware problem?
dethpikil said:
so this is a problem ive had on and off for a long time. Basically my phone has these moments where its like the touch screen gets really confused. i touch one place, it registers another place. i tap the screen and it decideds im long pressing. other times it just spazzes out completely and i couldnt even begin to list the different things it starts to do. in the past, the only time it happened was when i plug it into an aux port in a car, in which case it would usually just spaz out in the music app i was using, now it tends to call and end and call and end the call a lot too. it wouldnt do it when i plugged normal headphones in though. used to, i would simply reflash or change roms. and the problem seemed to subside for a time. lately though, its gotten really bad. even on android revolution (stock and stable, no mods or anything) it just does really crazy things. lol i cant ignore this issue anymore, and when ive searched for the problem, i cant find anything specific to the inspire 4g. could it be a rom thing? or possibly just a shotty screen and wiring or some other hardware problem?
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Sounds like improper grounding of the digitizer or something.
dethpikil said:
so this is a problem ive had on and off for a long time. Basically my phone has these moments where its like the touch screen gets really confused. i touch one place, it registers another place. i tap the screen and it decideds im long pressing. other times it just spazzes out completely and i couldnt even begin to list the different things it starts to do. in the past, the only time it happened was when i plug it into an aux port in a car, in which case it would usually just spaz out in the music app i was using, now it tends to call and end and call and end the call a lot too. it wouldnt do it when i plugged normal headphones in though. used to, i would simply reflash or change roms. and the problem seemed to subside for a time. lately though, its gotten really bad. even on android revolution (stock and stable, no mods or anything) it just does really crazy things. lol i cant ignore this issue anymore, and when ive searched for the problem, i cant find anything specific to the inspire 4g. could it be a rom thing? or possibly just a shotty screen and wiring or some other hardware problem?
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I had this same issue with my mytouch 3G slide. Eventually it stopped working completely. There were times for awhile that the only way to get the phone to work was to beat it against my palm. Then one day I was texting and it suddenly stop. I tried replacing the digitizer but come to find out it was one of the ribbons.
Your best bet is to go back to pure stock. Unroot. Do whatever it takes to get your back to factory as you can. A fresh start. If the problem is still there (which I'm going to assume it is) us the phones warranty through HTC (not your carrier) and tell them your problem. They will either send you another inspire for free or send you the next best thing. The inspire is on the EOL list as of the 24th so u may get the next in line.
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Just clean the screen. It happened to me also.
I can't remember if this happened with the build I was using before (month 2) -- I think perhaps one or two times, but I'm not 100% sure. However, more recently it has been happening quite a lot. Sometimes the phone will just simply not turn the screen on. There's not even any backlighting (or in this case in other words the black level is below the minimum that it seems to be when the screen is on since it's LED.) Most of the time I don't think it's responding at all, but this latest time I did get haptic feedback from what should be the lock screen, so I'm not entirely sure if I was maybe just missing the lock before. I think the issue has been happening more frequently now than before though (well, it has only been since the 14th or so I guess, but I'm pretty sure the issue wasn't happening much at first) I'm wondering if it's more likely something I've changed. Also, this last time I did notice later that day that the battery was shockingly low for such a short trip out. I think it was in the 70-80 range -- normally it's around 92+ after that length of time.
To be honest, I do keep a lot of things from running in the background and freeze a lot of apps. I try not to get anything essential, but sometimes it's hard to tell what truly is. I've mostly frozen obviously useless things like the live wallpaper stuff though. The only thing even remotely related that I could think of is the face unlock which I froze since it was running even though I don't use it (I have the plain slide to unlock set and do not want face unlock.) I can't think of anything else I might have messed with that even remotely could have to do with this though... My Nexus 7 also running CM 10 stable doesn't seem to have this issue.
Hi,
I just got the S4 (SCH-I545 - Verizon) and so far I love it. I do seem to have a small issue with wifi were it will not connect until I turn wifi off and back on again. This happens in multiple location so its not like its just my home router. But its not all the time, some times it will connect automatically like it should.
Also I read a lot how people never use the air gestures after the first week. I have had it for about a week and I am starting to see why but personally holding your hand over the phone for a second to see the info screen never gets old and seems to be one of the best features I have ever seen! Its very useful and makes you feel like a jedi! I love the hand move to go through your pics in the gallery. I think the biggest problem with air-gesture is not enough other apps support it so its hard to get in the habit of using it.
What other cool things should I check out? I did the face recognition but when I figured out I could unlock my phone with the picture on my work badge I stopped using it. I know you can turn on the blink thing but it just seems kind of lame.
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