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Widgetlocker Lockscreen Issue: Slider slow to respond. Help!

Hey guys,
I've been having issues with the Widgetlocker lockscreen recently, and was wondering if any of this will ring a bell with someone.
I recently flashed the KJ2 2.3.5 ROM (the XEU non-wipe Frankenstein one), and i've also flashed CF-Root and then the Speedmod kernel. I'm in the UK, on O2 (debranded to XEU) and i have no issues with the phone whatsoever. I even get great battery life. It's just this damn widgetlocker issue that's grating on me!
For some reason when i wake the phone up and try to unlock it by using the slider (i just use the default 'Android' one for unlocking - the only other things i have are a couple of widgets for missed calls & texts and a battery % one) a lot of the time the slider does not repond to touch. It doesn't always happen, but maybe a good one out of every three times it happens. And the weird part is, if i then just wait about 5 seconds, then it suddenly responds and i can unlock the phone. Obviously having another 5 seconds on top of the already present lag when pressing the home button is not good, and because of this i'm thinking of not using WL anymore.
I've been through all of the settings, i'm almost 100% sure it's not something in there. Can anyone help with this?
Cheers guys.

Happens with me too sometimes. Another issue is if you keep pressing Menu button 4-5 times the phone gets unlocked and takes you to the home screen.

Hey, just wanted to post that i finally figured out what the problem was.
I'm using an .apk to help with the touchscreen sensitivity. See vitalij's thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18999801#post18999801
Well it turns out on 2.3.5 vitalij's .apk has some issues with the most up-to-date superuser. The solution, so far, isn't great but gets the job done, is to uninstall the .apk, and then re-install. The important part is not to click on 'enable service' in the app! So basically each time you want to use the app you have to open it and hit 'apply' on whatever setting you need. The setting will work until you next turn the screen off. For me this workaround is actually ok, as the only time i ever really used it was for the odd game, so i'm happy to just do it manually on these occassions.

disable root helper

madrano, can you expand on what you mean by this? i have tried enabling & disabling root helper but if i remember correctly the problem was still there.

[Q] 4.2 Issue with proximity sensor/dialpad?

I'm not sure if I am the only one but searching hasn't really helped me find any answers. Basically, since updating (rather, doing a clean install of 4.2 tajku) to 4.2 Jellybean, I often have an issue where despite the fact that the proximity sensor blacks out the screen, the dial pad when pulled up still detects key hits. Hence, my cheek is randomly pressing buttons. Happens during voicemail since the dial pad is needed to get through menus and/or during calls which have a menu system.
Any else have this problem or have any ideas how I can resolve it?

Same here

Glad I'm not going crazy. Seems to also be happening without the dial pad, per say. I say that because it appears during a call, I was pressing something so I removed from proximity to be greeted by the lock screen (number pad). So I wonder if it has something to do with that. I am going to disable pin lock for awhile to see if that alleviates the problem.

Do you have something similar with SKype?
Do you have Skype installed?
I've something similar to this. When I am making a Skype call the screen does not go off during the call. It stays on and the only way I can make the call is to manually lock the screen before putting the phone over my ear.
You are the 5th person I meet complaining of this issue.

MenaMAKS said:
Do you have Skype installed?
I've something similar to this. When I am making a Skype call the screen does not go off during the call. It stays on and the only way I can make the call is to manually lock the screen before putting the phone over my ear.
You are the 5th person I meet complaining of this issue.
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No Skype. And the screen goes off due to the proximity sensor - but the buttons and/or dial pad are still active. I'll try changing my power button back from "end call" to just screen off and see if that helps.

Anyway, a quick update. Seems like a couple of factory resets did the job. So something with Titanium Backup did not translate over well to 4.2 (from 4.1.2). On top of that, I can no longer seem to do a full restore, causes my device to go into boot loop. Don't know why it worked the first time. At any rate, just re-downloaded all my apps and so far so good. Just have to try and restore individual app data one by one and see if I can get it to stick without fudging up the dial pad again.
EDIT: Scratch that, it's going it again. What the hell... 4.2 is such a @#@#@ in the ass.

Still having same issue. Glad you came back with an update, bc I was about to re-flash and re-download all of my apps. I know you say that you experience it even without the keypad pulled up, but I have not. Usually happens when I call an automated system, and my call gets sent to every extension possible!
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Alright, I think I have it working. I did factory reset... made sure any phantom directories (i.e. storage(sdcard)/0/0/0/0 etc) were deleted.
1) By default, I tested by calling voice mail then rolling my cheek against the screen. So far so good.
2) I downloaded StickMount, Titanium Backup Pro, NTFS mounter (for ntfs driver) and ES File Explorer. Tested again as per above. OK.
3) Used Titanium Backup to restore missing apps + data. Did a test, still good.
4) Used Titanium Backup to restore only select system data (i.e. call logs, SMS log, alarm, etc). Still tests fine.
5) Enabled PGM free. Did test and BOOM, problem.
So it seems like with 4.2 there is something screwy with PGM which is essentially keeping the screen "awake" even though it's off due to sensor. Don't know why I didn't think of it earlier.
EDIT: Checked the PGM thread and it appears the author has already fixed it though only the paid version is updated atm. Says will update the free version soon if the paid version doesn't have any new bugs.

Awesome, nice work! Will see of it works for me too and report back.
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Edit Uninstalled PGM, reboot and its solved! Thanks for your hard work!

I was going crazy with this issue too .. it's good that it's not only me .. i will disable PGM and try

My brother's nexus has this issue without pgm installed on full stock 4.2.1 rom.
I have watched the serial code and production date is c9,or rather september 2012.
What I have to do to fix this very annoying issue?
edit: no one has this issue?It's a common problem of latest batch sold in Italy.

Bugs on stock AT&T firmware (4.1.1)

I searched the AT&T Galaxy S III General forum and saw no other posts similar. Essentially, I was wondering if anyone had experienced other bugs in the stock firmware. I am not rooted and have not modified my phone's software from stock.
There are two bugs I currently have seen. One I can and will provide screenshots of. This is where during the lockscreen the formatting will be incorrect, such that the last number on the time will be small and the charging text appears on the same line. Also note that the lockscreen shortcuts at the bottom are spaced oddly. I always have five icons, yet sometimes only 3 or 4 show spaced unevenly. I can reproduce this by watching Netflix and while a video is playing, I lock the screen. When I first unlock it, this will happen. This will fix itself if I relock the screen and wake the device again.
The second bug is in the messaging app. Sometimes when my device falls asleep by itself while I have the keyboard up and active on a thread, and I wake it, the keyboard is unusable. I can click on the message block to bring up the keyboard, but all of my keystrokes are not entered into the message block. I have to back out of the keyboard and thread, to the thread list, then go back to the thread. My previous keystrokes are still not showing, but the keyboard will then work.
Anyone else noticed any bugs?

I'm fine on my phone
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I've had the second bug happen with the keyboard maybe a handful of times since I got the phone but definitely not a regular occurrence.
I wouldnt worry too much about it but if it bothers you that bad just try a factory reset.
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No problems here
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The second bug is in the messaging app. Sometimes when my device falls asleep by itself while I have the keyboard up and active on a thread, and I wake it, the keyboard is unusable. I can click on the message block to bring up the keyboard, but all of my keystrokes are not entered into the message block. I have to back out of the keyboard and thread, to the thread list, then go back to the thread. My previous keystrokes are still not showing, but the keyboard will then work.
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I've only experienced this issue that you describe. I've gotten used to it, so I'm now indifferent towards it.
I've had issues with the battery life however and how the actual "percentage" is being reported, but I think that it's just Jelly Bean that is causing the issue when my device is restored to stock setup as opposed to running ICS. Sometimes, my phone gets really warm overnight (and I can assure you that nothing is running in the background). Looking at the battery graph, I see a sharp drop within the space of about 20 minutes. This causes the back cover of my phone to be discolored. My i747 is only 5 weeks old and I'm the original owner.

phone minimizes
I have an issue where my phone screen turns off when I'm it for a while (typically at work I use a wired headset). When I wake the phone up and swipe on the lock screen, the phone shows the phone "app" for a second then it jumps to the home screen (as if I hit the home button). Typically I'm unlocking the phone so I can either hit a number on the phone (like, press 1 for English) or I'm wanting to hang up. So I have to go back into the phone application to do either task.
ICS didn't do that to me.

Me and a few others have experienced a bug where the external sd unmounts itself at random. Mostly when the screen goes to sleep. For one freezing the MTP application with tibu solved his sd problem but by doing that you cant mount your phone to a pc. As far me nothing has helped yet. My external sd just unmounts at random and I have to remove it and put it back several times to get it to work again and sometimes and I have to format it in the pc to get it to work again. This has happened to a a lot of tmobile users. I never noticed this problem on ics so im assuming its a jb problem. Its not a micro sd card being bad because it does it with my other cards to and one is a very expensive Samsung card..
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get2brad said:
I have an issue where my phone screen turns off when I'm it for a while (typically at work I use a wired headset). When I wake the phone up and swipe on the lock screen, the phone shows the phone "app" for a second then it jumps to the home screen (as if I hit the home button). Typically I'm unlocking the phone so I can either hit a number on the phone (like, press 1 for English) or I'm wanting to hang up. So I have to go back into the phone application to do either task.
ICS didn't do that to me.
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I think this has happened to me once or twice. But I guess with the scarcity it's happened I thought I was bumping the back button or home button with my face, i.e. a failure of the proximity sensor to correctly detect my face.

I just started noticing the Keyboard Messaging bug myself. Wasn't sure why it was happening.

I just remembered (or refreshed my memory since my phone just started doing it) that whether or not TalkBack is off or on, my phone needs to tell me which number screen I am whenever I slide my finger across the dots at the bottom of the home screen or the app drawer. Is this a different setting I am missing or is this another bug?

I have had the messaging bug occur a couple of times. No biggee to me considering it has only happened twice in a month's time. I have seen other phones with much more persistent and annoying bugs and by comparison, this is nothing.

no problems here... i like it a lot now

Problem on Stock/root
Hey, not sure if this is the right place for this post, but my GS3 is on stock jelly bean and rooted. For some reason I am not receiving incoming calls. I tried calling my phone from gmail and the phone rings, but nothing happens on my phone. Any ideas as to why this is

Luker161 said:
Hey, not sure if this is the right place for this post, but my GS3 is on stock jelly bean and rooted. For some reason I am not receiving incoming calls. I tried calling my phone from gmail and the phone rings, but nothing happens on my phone. Any ideas as to why this is
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I'm not sure if this is the right place either, since this is generally non-rooted, although the topic doesn't specify that I suppose.
However, I would venture a guess that you may need to wipe your data and cache. Sounds like a default app issue to me.

If I use bluetooth headphones on my walk to work, then plug in wired headphones at work, the audio plays out of the speaker.
It's really annoying because it happens every morning (as it's too early for me to remember things like that) and blasts my podcasts to my coworkers. Removing the wired headphones and reinserting fixes the issue.

No issues here.
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I have never had any of these issues
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miketigerwoods said:
If I use bluetooth headphones on my walk to work, then plug in wired headphones at work, the audio plays out of the speaker.
It's really annoying because it happens every morning (as it's too early for me to remember things like that) and blasts my podcasts to my coworkers. Removing the wired headphones and reinserting fixes the issue.
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Actually, I've had a similar issue. I use Google Play Music (as a carry-over from my Nexus S). When the first song of the playlist would finish (using the headphone jack to play through my car stereo), the second song would start on the phone speaker.
It doesn't seem to happen anymore, but it did directly after the JellyBean update.

PIN Lock Instantly with power button
I am upset that the "Lock Instantly with Power Key" option missing from 4.1.1. I have been searching for a fix, but I must be the only one annoyed by this, or I'm bad at searching.
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I have a pin lock but am used to a 15 min delay before I need to enter the pin, and being able to push power to shut the screen off at will. That is no longer an option as it always will lock to the PIN screen if the power button is pushed. It is very annoying to me.

Another bug is the Keyboard defaulting Samsung Keyboard on reboot. Every time I restart, I have to go back into settings to select Swiftkey.

Things get wonky after restarting my Pixel (SIM, time zone, wifi calling, voicemail)

Sometimes, not always, when I restart my phone, things get a little crazy and somehow they must be all related. It happens as often as approx once a week. What happens is the following things:
1- I get an email from Where's My Droid that my SIM card or phone number has changed
2- Network-provided time zone changes to Central European Summertime
3- Wifi calling is turned off (however this doesn't normally stay on for some reason)
4- Visual voicemail in the phone app is missing despite still being turned on
5 - APN is not selected (the circle next to Verizon is empty aka does not have the blue dot in it)
I am on 7.1.2 and rooted. Does this happen to anyone else and is there any fix? What could be the cause?
Edit: I doubt this is related, but since I am looking for general feedback for strange bugs with my phone...
Another thing that happens is sometimes while using my phone, apps randomly reload (lack of a better word)
By reload, what happens is the app does not fully close and reopen. What happens is the app remains open ("heading" bar at the top remains) but the rest of the page I am on goes completely blank and then returns with any previous changes undone.
So say I was writing an email in gmail, the red bar at the top with the back arrow and trash can, etc. stays while the rest goes blank and any text I wrote will be gone and I have to start from the beginning. Usually when this is happening, it continues to happen repetitively for a little while. Eventually it just stops on its own. It does not seem to be related to any specific app (since it happens with a bunch of apps) unless maybe it is related to something like Swype keyboard that is always on.
Does that happen to anyone else too? What is causing this??

If your phone is 128g your nand is bad and you need a replacement. Google is aware of the issue and should swap no problem.

DR3W5K1 said:
If your phone is 128g your nand is bad and you need a replacement. Google is aware of the issue and should swap no problem.
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Thank you! I do have 128GB. I'm glad I finally asked!

NP glad to assist Buddy

Question Freezing for a Few Seconds Since Last Update?

Anyone else have their Fold 3 keep on freezing for a few seconds at times, ever since the last update? It has done it when using Facebook Messenger via Chat Heads, opening the list of open apps (via the three lines button ||| ) to switch/close an app, Facebook app, Samsung Browser, tapping the back button, and possibly other times. Really annoying!

My screen will go blank when I close a app sometimes. The screen is powered on but all my app icons won't be there. Just the background.

I've had this issue since I got the device. It happens whenever I unfold the device from using the outer screen and it's not an immediate switch, it takes a couple seconds like it hangs. And I've tried 6 different launchers and tons of different apps and nothing changes it. I've debloated my device as much as I can without losing the functionality I need and followed the oneui optimization guide with a bunch of adb commands to make it better and I've had no luck BUT my battery life is amazing and the overall performance is good so I'm at a loss.

manibengood said:
My screen will go blank when I close a app sometimes. The screen is powered on but all my app icons won't be there. Just the background.
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Oh, that's an odd one! I haven't had that one happen. It was getting frozen right after the opened app view came up, so I couldn't swipe an app closed or switch to another one right away.
Thankfully, the phone seems to be working better now after I reset the phone earlier, so here's hoping it stays that way.

spart0n said:
I've had this issue since I got the device. It happens whenever I unfold the device from using the outer screen and it's not an immediate switch, it takes a couple seconds like it hangs. And I've tried 6 different launchers and tons of different apps and nothing changes it. I've debloated my device as much as I can without losing the functionality I need and followed the oneui optimization guide with a bunch of adb commands to make it better and I've had no luck BUT my battery life is amazing and the overall performance is good so I'm at a loss.
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I don't use the front screen much, so only have done that switch a few times over the year plus I've had the phone. I think it does take a second or two to switch, but not too bad since you're getting it set in your hands anyway, IME.

Okay, well it still does the freezing thing, but not as bad as it did before the reboot. I'd report it to Samsung, but their customer service can't understand English so can't understand problems correctly. I have an issue with scrolling screenshots not saving and they told me to reset my app settings, including network settings, and I separately gave a suggestion for the Bubbles feature to be able to open Bubbles (for texting) instead of waiting for that person to text me, and they told me to reset my network settings.