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Also from time to time by touching things, like the fingerprint.or elements when the phone il locked, the torch turns on.
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I just got my new AT&T S3 a few days ago, and there's a problem I seem to be having with every single phone call I make or receive.
During the call, the screen goes dark, and none of the buttons seem to be able to wake it up again until the other party hangs up. I've literally had to rip my Otterbox off and yank the battery out to hang up during one call to an IVR system that just wouldn't hang up on its own (I guess I could have pressed the right combination of buttons to force a reboot, but at that point I was in no mood to spend 5 minutes experimenting with different permutations of power, vol-, and vol+ to find the magic combo).
Here's what I think might be happening. Note that I haven't exhaustively spent lots of time debugging it yet, on the theory that if it's a common bug, somebody else already has:
Call begins.
Hall Effect sensor triggered by proximity to face. Screen turned off, touchscreen input disabled.
Display settings ticking away in the background force timeout after N seconds. Ignores the fact that the display is already off, and puts the phone to sleep "for real" (at least, the part handling the UI), neglecting to re-enable the power button first.
I'm done with my call. I move the phone away from my face to hang up (or pull up the keypad to enter a selection). Hall Effect sensor broadcasts intent to turn on screen and re-enable touchscreen, and its intent falls on deaf ears because the phone is officially asleep and ignoring it.
Panic. Press power button. Seemingly ignored (though the phone might be waking up enough to see a note telling it to ignore the button, and going back to sleep without further action).
Anger. Press home button. Press volume buttons. Swear violently, and get really mad.
(other party hangs up; lock gets released, phone is awakened and problem seems to go away)
or...
(furiously press various two- and three-finger combinations of power, vol+, vol-, and home until either the call terminates or the phone reboots)
For what it's worth, the same bug show up if I make a call in my car, but the bluetooth call-control button DOES work, even though the phone itself appears to be a darkened unresponsive brick, and triggering a hangup via bluetooth wakes it back up again. I KNOW this isn't due to Tasker or anything, because I've had this problem literally since I made my first call on the new phone to terminate my Sprint account, when it was 100% stock and virgin.
I had the same problem with my white s3 . Then I changed the screen protector and cleansed the proximity sensor with a dust free cloth and haven't had any problems since
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Well, I found the root of my problem: the S3's proximity sensor isn't a Hall Effect sensor, it's near-infrared... and the plastic shell on my case is yellow, which meant it was reflecting too much near-infrared light back into the sensor and triggering it continuously from the moment the LED turned on. I ended up blackening the plastic that surrounds the sensor using a Sharpie marker, and it solved the problem.
Samsung S3 won't hang up
I have the same problem and found that I can insert earphones to phone to make light come back on. After looking at this forum I also noticed a setting (which I haven't tried yet). It's the 3rd from last under settings. Settings-Accessibility-Answering/ending calls-The power key ends calls.
I'm hoping that will work.
My power button has finally gone to complete crap. The only way I can use it is if I pull the back off and press down at a certain angle. Which is rather annoying and not worth the troubles just to turn my screen off. It's a snap to wake my device because all I have to do is press the Home key and it pops right on. I'd like to avoid apps that put a widget on your home screen, I've already played around with those and it feels wonky to turn my screen off like that. Though if I have to, I'll deal with it. So any alternatives anyone has to offer? Perhaps maybe mapping it to the search key since I never use it?
You can use screen timeout option from settings to lock the device automateclly after 15 seconds
And if 15 seconds is long, there are apps in the store that lock the phone after 5 seconds
Yeah, I have it set to 15 seconds, but it's not quite quick enough since I usually whip it out to text then immediatly put it away. My leg likes to open a bunch of crap up and pocket dial people. I'll look into that five second app though, that sounds nice.
I use screen off and lock from market but I dont use the short cut,I just link swipe up in gestures with ADW Launcher to the app.So just one swipe of the screen switches screen off.
Well I mean if you manage to flash custom roms like CyanogenMod it have the feature "Volume rocker wake" under Display.
And if you don't want to use LockScreen, the app App Locker can lock specific apps using pin numbers.
Some kernel for Galaxy devices have the feature to touch screen to wake, but I don't know if there is one available for this device.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys, but I think I finally found my resolution. I installed Holo Launcher and it let's you link your Home button to do an action if you're already on your default screen. I installed a Screen Off app and linked it with the Home button. So all I have to do is press Home twice to shut off my screen. Much nicer.
Sometimes in poor lighting Smart Stay doesn't work. Wouldn't if be more battery efficient to disable screen timeout and Smart Stay and just manually turn the screen off with the power button when done using the phone?
My theory is ideally, for battery and ease of use, would be to have this combination (assuming you are diligent about turning the screen off manually of course.)
1) Disable Smart Stay
2) Turn Auto Screen Timeout up considerably to 5 or 10 minutes. This is assuming I don't need it to stay on longer than 5 or 10 minutes but still gives you a safety net if you forget to turn it off. (This is also assuming apps like video players are smart enough to keep the screen turned on - otherwise you would have to keep waking screen if say you were watching a movie in a dark plane cabin.)
3) Turn off screen when done using phone.
What's nice is even if timeout is set high to 10 minutes if you answer a call, screen still turns off automatically when bringing phone to face.
Second method:
1) Disable Smart Stay
2) Set timeout to 15 or 30 seconds.
3) Have some sort of button press to force screen on indefinitely, or ideally you can set it for a max amount of time like 10 min, like double press of power button? Is there an app to do this?
I think first method would be most battery efficient if you remembered to turn the screen off every time, second method is 'safer' Is there an app or stock setting to achieve second methods?
Guess I should try Screebl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite&hl=en
I'd still like an option to do a double press on the power button to force it on indefinitely.
Meh. Not liking Screebl too much for two reasons. Makes phone stay on while in my car or pocket if I forget to turn it off. But, if I am as diligent about manually powering off, it shouldn't make a diff, but, it will. Reason is, it complicates operation when you want to change a song now you have to manually turn phone off while driving after changing song. I suppose once I have bluetooth setup in my car I can have Llama disable Screeble when I have bluetooth car connection. Also don't like that there is no option to not have the notification bar icon.
In a 2 min GSAM test with phone just sitting at angle, it took 1% battery. Wonder how much Smart Stay would take. Maybe BBS will give that info?
Really still think best solution is to map double press of power button to disable screen timeout until power button is pressed again. That's all I need.
Getting closer. But unfortunately, there is no (hardware) search button on S3! Need this for long press of menu or back button?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5tYWxjb2xtLnNjcmVlbm9udG9nZ2xlciJd
Got it....
Screen Timeout Toggle
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chemdroid.screentimeouttoggle
Then for those using Nova Launcher
Settings > Gestures & Buttons > Long-press Menu > Apps > Screen Timeout Toggle
Now I can just long press menu button to toggle if screen is forced on or not. I'm actually having second thoughts about turning off Smart Stay though as I don't know for sure if part of the time I've been setting my phone down without pressing the power button! Guess I'll see...
Hello,
I am having this issue since i have updated my phone to marshmallow.
When i set "screen lock type to fingerprint" and try to unlock my phone with fingerprint i am getting this.
Enter pattern instead of using fingerprint recognition because of security policy
Is there any way around to always use fingerprint.
Thank you.
Do you long press the home button to turn the screen off?
It's Samsung security ..no way around it... It usual happens if.. 1~uturn off screen than turn it back on immediately..2~if your screen been off a while..it's no bug... It's part of Samsung 6.0.1 security
I don't believe that's true. The only time fingerprint asks me for an additional password/pattern is the first time after I reboot and if I turn off the screen by long pressing the home button.
timmy10shoes said:
Do you long press the home button to turn the screen off?
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I use double tap to turn of the screen
Use the power button instead if you want to use fingerprint
So the power button of my Pixel 2 XL is unfortunately dying. Sometimes it works a few times and then a button press does nothing. It also triggers easily a double press (noticeable because that starts the camera) when tapping it only once. Gets really annoying when you think you have powered it off but it is still powered on in your pocket...
Are there any ideas how to fix the issue without opening the device? I don't want to open the device by myself after I ****ed up my Nexus 6 after a battery swap.
Any workarounds for the problem? Currently I use Novas remapping of the home button for power off but that is not really comfortable because you have to leave the current app for that.
Different roms have different options that may partly help. Often they are at settings/system/gestures.
For wake, use fingerprint. For sleep, set a very short timeout, or see if you can find a rom with double-tap to sleep option. If camera starts at the wrong time, disable the camera quick start.
But none of this will help you if the phone is really turned off. Can you really live with not knowing whether you can start the phone if it runs out of power?
I will look into some of the options. I'd like to stay with the stock rom though (but I have root if that helps).
The button is not that broken. If I press really hard I can always get it to work again, so I have no fear it won't power on again.