I've noticed my phone turning on in my pocket ever since 4.4.2 (arrived for me last November, no root, international edition).
Basically what happens is that the power button (on the side) gets held down in some position, turning the phone off whilst it is locked. Afterwards when it is tapped again, it turns the phone on. Tried it out-of-pocket, it is what happens.
Is there a way to turn off the ability to turn off the phone while it is locked? I haven't found it in the settings.
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I hope someone can help me with this, i went to bed last night and all i did was use opera and check my emails. I then pressed the top standby button to turn the screen off and went to sleep.
This morning i woke up and found i could not turn the screen back on. The home hardware button was lit up and nothing else was happening. Tried every button on it but the phone wouldn't wake up.
All I've done to the phone is hardSPL and have been running the Extreme topaz rom for the past 2 weeks happily.
I reset the rom to stock and no joy. I then did a hard reset and now its acting even weirder! After turning on, the screen is flicking between the phone dialing screen and the quick list screen constantly by itself!
Does anyone have any ideas? Its less than 3 weeks old!
So I've reflashed to stock rom and used the HARD SPL relocker and the phone is now only semi-broken. The rest of the hardware buttons are now working, but the power button at the top of the device may as well be dead. It has completely stopped working. it won't wake the device or turn off the device
This is a major bummer because the phone automatically turns the screen off after a minute and the only way I can get it back is to remove and put the battery back in. Looks like real bad luck for me. Back to warranty for repairs
Shortest time ever for a device to fail on me. Grrr.
had something odd happen to my phone on the weekend. I pressed the power button (to wake it up) so I could quickly see the time and temp and I put it down, came back to it 3 hours later and the screen was still on.... (on the locked screen)
I unlocked it and locked it again and it wouldn't turn off the screen without me hitting the power button to do it
This happened last night as well and I noticed that it dimed the screen and stayed on when sometimes I see it dim then turn off a second later. Rebooting it makes it go back to the usual turning off after 10 or so seconds
I posted this on the aussie Whirlpool forms and someone else has said they have seen the same thing happen
sorry should have put in that I am on the 4.2.2 update on the Australian unbranded handset
chippyaus said:
had something odd happen to my phone on the weekend. I pressed the power button (to wake it up) so I could quickly see the time and temp and I put it down, came back to it 3 hours later and the screen was still on.... (on the locked screen)
I unlocked it and locked it again and it wouldn't turn off the screen without me hitting the power button to do it
This happened last night as well and I noticed that it dimed the screen and stayed on when sometimes I see it dim then turn off a second later. Rebooting it makes it go back to the usual turning off after 10 or so seconds
I posted this on the aussie Whirlpool forms and someone else has said they have seen the same thing happen
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Try going to Settings -> Display -> Sleep and then selecting your preference, that solved it for me. It seems that sometimes this setting doesnt get recognized, so you have to select it again.
The other day my phone started acting a bit odd as it is no longer getting locked when the screen is turned off. Normally it would lock itself after 30 minutes if I leave it untouched, and immediately if I click on the power button. Now when I turn the screen off it doesn't lock itself. Sometimes when I exit the camera or another app the phone locks itself. Also, the screen comes on at random times.
I haven't installed any new apps lately and have experienced this on Monxified and iHacker roms, so it doesn't appear to be rom specific. Is there any way to check what could be causing the non-locking and random screen on issues?
Hello all,
I got this phone about a month and a half ago, and since I got it I've noticed a lot of freezing and crashing (more so after the 5.1 update).
Some examples:
-I try unlocking the phone from active display and the screen goes black. The only way to get out of it is to hold the power button to restart.
-Sometimes the phone freezes on the lock screen randomly, and when I pick up the phone to look at it, the time is wrong and I can't physically unlock the phone, only turn the screen on and off, leading to me having to hold the power button down to shut off and restart.
-When on some apps, like twitter for example, the phone freezes, and I cannot do anything except turn off the screen by pressing the power button. When I try waking the phone, it stays black or sometimes theres a flash of the screen I was on before, and then it goes black again. Only thing I can do here is hold the power button down until "Power Off" shows up on the screen, and I press that to shut the phone off.
Today I cleared the cache, and since then the phone has froze once, causing me to do a hard reset. What should I try next? Any idea what the problem could be?
Thank you for the help.
I have pretty much the exact same thing going on. It started last night... I first noticed I had some charging issues where the phone wasn't charging very quickly after the battery died (after a day of heavy use). I let it sit for awhile, then it booted up, and it showed the motorola splash screen. It gets all the way to the lock screen, although I'm unable to unlock the phone. The screen goes dark. It appears to still be getting texts and the like- although this screen blackness issue makes it so I can't unlock the phone. The one thing I can do is hold down the power button and turn it off. I've tried loading fastboot and doing a factory reset, although nothing appears to happen and it boots the same way. The other thing about it is that it appears to be running hot- way hot. Any ideas? I'm running stock rom, Verizon network, just updated to 5.1 when it came out last week.
I'm joining the chorus of complains about my Samsung Tab S2 9.7" SM-T810 purchased April 2016. I used it a lot and it still works well, except for a weird problem, which could be due to a recent software update.
Assume the screen turns off, without turning off the device. For example, I just leave the tablet unattended for 2 minutes, which is the timeout period. When I return to the tablet and try to turn the screen on (by pressing Home briefly) the screen won't turn on. In this zombie state, the device is still functional. Pressing Home+Power simultaneously makes the sound expected for a Screendump. Later on, I can recover the image file which shows how the screen should have looked if it was on. A long-press on Home brings up the Google Assistant and I can hear it talking to me.
But I can't turn the screen on for a while, no matter what. As if there was an internal timeout of 1-3 minutes which prevents the screen from turning on. The device probably believes the screen is on, and perhaps does not bother changing its status.
After a minute or two, the tablet eventually responds to the Home button and turns on. Then it works perfectly for hours - unless I allow it to turn off again.
Now I just ordered a new tablet (the P-205) so the old SM-810 will soon go into retirement. Would it make sense to try going back to a prior version of Android ? I have no experience with root on Android, although I "used to be" computer literate in the previous four decades.