I bought my Note 8 brand new less than three weeks ago and I am noticing a fault with the home button. I don't use the always on display so when I go to use my device the screen is 100% off. I force press the virtual home button and the phone jumps to life....although in a faulty kind of way. The haptic feedback is random and the force required to press the button is random. Sometimes the screen turns on and there is a lag until the vibration feedback. It isn't a consistent button at all when the screen is off and I'm wondering if this is a hardware fault? I'm running the latest update.
Nobody has any home button issues when the screen is off? When using the always on display and the ambient light is low the always on display will be off, so in these situations will hard pressing the home button result in a consistently tactile operation each and every time?
Well, no, the home button behaves exactly as intended, in AOD, in homescreen and in any app, I even assigned it the lock screen behavior when long pressed
In general have never had issues with hard pressing with screen off, often when i fish my phone out my pocket i accidentally hard press and the vibration tells me so with no lag.
the only time there is a lag is when the phone just came out of a cold boot or if it's installing/updating stuff.
winol said:
Well, no, the home button behaves exactly as intended, in AOD, in homescreen and in any app, I even assigned it the lock screen behavior when long pressed
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Mine works fine for double taps of the home button within the AOD and for long presses when the screen is on. It is when the screen is fully off that the home button becomes temperamental. When it is too dark for the AOD to illuminate, or when the AOD is switched off and I press where the home button should be to wake the device....they're the scenarios when my pressure sensitive home button plays up. It should perform like a mechanical home button and wake the screen whether AOD is on or not, but 3 or 4 times out of 10 it plays up. It will still wake my device but it takes a harder/longer press, the press might not register at all, or the haptoc feedback will lag. The button becomes inconsistent and frustrating to use. So many people use the fingerprint sensor to unlock, the physical power button to wake the device or they're always in a well lit room so can double tap from the AOD that they won't come across this fault even if they have it.
Sunking, I dont think the light levels or anything else for that matter,make your button erratic, take your device to claim warranty
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I carry my Tilt in my pocket and the Camera button gets continuously pushed keeping the screen on and killing my battery.
Is there a way to Prevent the Camera Button [and maybe all but the OK button] from waking up my Tilt. I tried AEButtons but it only remaps buttons, they still wake-up.
Yes, I have searched all manner of terms, camera button, wake up, sleep.............without results.
I don't think it's the camera button because the camera would not come on unless you have the device on. If you have wake on slide enable, this may be causing you issue along with the camera coming on when the button is push. I noticed a similar issue with my Tilt... the device would be on when I take it out and I disabled wake-up on slide. No more issues. Give that a shot.. maybe it'll help.
I an not saying that the Camera is coming on. The problim is that a very slight push on the camera button will wake up the device and turn the screen on [ie. wake it up from Sleep mode]. The camera button prutrudes out so far that it is very easy to push it while in my pocket.
I need a method to inhibit the the Camera button[and other buttons] from waking up the device.
I have looked through Settings and can not find the 'Wake on Slide' setting, where is it?
I just tested my Tilt and I cannot wake up the device by pressing the camera button... weird.
Anyway, search for Advance Config and it has an option to disable wake-up on slide. Worth a try.
On my Tilt, EVERY BUTTON [except left, right, up, down, and select] will cause it to WAKE-UP from sleep mode.
How can I prevent this???
I would like just the OK button to wake up my device.
Thank you
neely30188 said:
On my Tilt, EVERY BUTTON [except left, right, up, down, and select] will cause it to WAKE-UP from sleep mode.
How can I prevent this???
I would like just the OK button to wake up my device.
Thank you
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I've never seen anything that allows this.. It's the four hard buttons (2 phone/win/ok) and power, or just the Power button.
It's in the Key Lock preference under System.
Personally I'd like it if I could do something like hit one of the four hard buttons and another button immediately after or it powers off. If I set it where all the hard buttons will turn it on I find it turned on every time I take it out of my horizontal pouch. But if it was set to some very simple key 'combination' it'd be easy to turn on myself (vs the tiny power button) but wouldn't stay on all the time in my pouch.
That is my point, either No buttons wake-up except the hard to get to power button or all buttons wake-up.
I there a registry hack that will allow the power button and one other button, maybe the OK button to wake the device up??
Hey does anyone know of a widget that i could put on my homescreen to put my phone to sleep... i feel like having to hit the power button everytime is a bit annoying. Trackball wake takes care of getting the screen on but what about off?
Thanks guys
Any ideas? Or how hars would it even be possible?
So you want to replace pressing a single button, with pressing another single button..
I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
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I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
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am also having to use reboot control for this matter, having an extra standby widget would be perfect.
After wake with trackball, this is second most wanted for me (and i'll not touch power button again). There is a thread in app's section, but no replies till now. Can it be so difficult???
Even if there's no way to directly turn off the screen, there should be some way around it by doing something like saving the current screen timeout time, setting the screen timeout time to 0 (or somewhere between 0 and 1) so the screen will turn off, then set a timer for like 1 second to reset the screen timeout time to the original time?
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I can understand his concerns, since people've reported that their power buttons have gotten worn off/need longer to press/etc. It's why I've taken up using Reboot Control for rebooting and powering down and Lockbot to press any button to wake up the phone. Another widget or app for turning off the screen would be great too, IMO.
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Will pressing any button work with the Nexus One's non physical buttons (back, menu, home, search)?
Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Aww thought it might be possible to use a button which wouldn't become loose or unresponsive after too much use.
I feel like the power button would benefit in te long run from not being pressed multiple times per day and much more convienent to tap a widget on screen
I'm all for it. either an app or a widget, some short cut that can be added to the home screen to put it to sleep.
scottypimpin636 said:
...either an app or a widget, some short cut that can be added to the home screen to put it to sleep.
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Yeah would be great!
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Not the capacitive buttons, nope, just the volume rocker and the tracknipple.
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Ha! Tracknipple... funny as sh!t!!
maybe even double click trackball or long press one of the soft keys along the bottom of the screen
A widget would be a cool option instead of beating the power button to death
Why not just shorten the up time to less then 15 seconds?
Then you have too switch the time whenever your reading the news or a text longer than15 seconds.
So is a widget like this even possible?
Any news on this matter? Is it possible?
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Yeah would be great!
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Second that. It seems my power button is beginning to fail already.
Hi everyone,
So as I'm sure everyone is well aware, the buttons on the S6 Active are huge and very easy to press (probably designed to be used with gloves). Problem is, the phone frequently turns on in my pocket (I think) because the power button is somehow getting pressed. I'm looking for an app or setting that will require the power button to be double pressed to turn the screen on, or something to that effect. Has anyone found anything like this to save power?
Thanks for any help.
Mine did it a lot before I got a Supcase, now the buttons are a bit harder to press while in my pocket. I do notice that my phone screen turns on when a SMS comes thru, sometimes it'll do some crazy things if it registers touches.
Try putting a glass screen protector on. Pressing the home button brings up the lock screen, add does hitting the blue active button.
9 out of 10 screenshots I take are by accident when I'm trying to press the power button to turn the screen off. With the volume buttons opposite the power button, it's too easy to press them. Is there a way to change how a screenshot is taken?
Enable the swipe gesture in advance features
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That's already on, but the other way I'm talking about is still active.
Hold you phone differently, unless your hands are so monstrous that preventing your fingers from pressing the volume button is impossible.
Thanks for the Apple-grade suggestion like I've got bad reception on my iPhone. lol
Holding the phone as usual in my right hand, it's not typically a problem. But frequently if it's in my left or I do a quick reach with either to turn the screen on and view notifications and turn it back off, I end up with an accidental screenshot. If I could make it require a momentary hold of the buttons before it takes a screenshot, it would do the trick.
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Thanks for the Apple-grade suggestion like I've got bad reception on my iPhone. lol
Holding the phone as usual in my right hand, it's not typically a problem. But frequently if it's in my left or I do a quick reach with either to turn the screen on and view notifications and turn it back off, I end up with an accidental screenshot. If I could make it require a momentary hold of the buttons before it takes a screenshot, it would do the trick.
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You could try installing a Bixby button remapper. Many of them allow you to set different functions to your hardware/mechanical buttons & or set delays of different intervals while keeping the current buttons doing the usual stock actions. If you are rooted you only need to install once. If you are stock UnRooted you need to run adb commands every time you turn off or reboot but this is the only option I can think of that will do what you need done. Bxactions is one app and another is button Mapper. Cheers & hope this helps you out.