yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] oofol:
Hi guys,

I was having this issue as well. This is a very annoying thing especially in a flagship like the N3...

I have made the check and realized that the sensor does work while flashing it with a flashlight. I made a closer look at the it and discovered small dust particles behind the glass - same as on the LED side.

Yesterday I have disassembled the device and cleaned the glass from inside as well as the sensor on its own (was covered with a nice film of dust..) assembled it together and now I am pleased with all gestures having them back again - I will load up some picks when back home;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] L_o_j_z_a:
Blow into the earpiece helped me as well. I thought new Android (4.4.2) was the reason.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Action B:
Mine still works fine since I cleaned it months ago. Glad the fix was simple for you as it was for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Cyclonut:
This week my screen started not coming back on once I took the phone away from my face. Then it stopped working altogether.

Quick easy burst of compressed air into the earpiece grill and it started working again!!!!

Many thanks for this find!!!

Swyped from Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note® 3 using Tapatalk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] LMMT:
Short of a hardware failure, the issue seems to be caused by dust entering through the speaker grill, and obstructing the proximity sensor. Research has lead me to the three most common fixes:

1) Blowing compressed air into the speaker grill. This method lowered my ADC number from 81, to 59. (*#0*#)

2) Disassembling the phone, to clean the sensor. Some people place a small piece of foam between the grill, and sensor, before reassembly, in hopes of eliminating dust re-entry.

3) If rooted, follow this method: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47248099&postcount=18 This changes the thresholds, and seems to work great, but still doesn't do anything to solve the underlying problem (dust).

So far, I'm trying a combination of #1 and #3. :cool:

Sent from my SM-N900P
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jeep447:
Well unfortunately it looks like I'm another victim of the proximity sensor issue with my Note 3. I've had mine since right after xmas this year and mine just started acting up out of nowhere yesterday. I actually repair cell phones and small electronics and I'm surprised because I haven't come across this problem a lot yet, but I knew there were some issues because I had read somewhere else before where people were saying to blow compressed air into the speaker grille because of the dust build up (which definitely makes sense). My problem seems to be a little bit different though because it doesn't look like there's a build up of dust under the glass where the sensor sits, but mainly because I noticed that if I put a slight amount of pressure with my thumb directly over the proximity sensor it'll start working again. I use an app called "Phone Tools" on Play that allows you to monitor all of your sensors, and for the proximity sensor it simply shows "Near" or "Far" that will change back and forth whenever you wave your hand over it. The reason I noticed my sensor wasn't working is because I use a flip cover case along with an app that turns the screen off and on based on the sensor, and all of a sudden whenever I'd open my case the screen would no longer turn on. So I used Phone Tools to check my sensor and noticed that it was basically "dead", because whenever I waved my hand over it the reading would not change. At first I thought it might have been a software problem because I had literally just flashed a new rom and kernel right before it stopped working, so I tried doing a factory reset with no luck. I didn't have anymore time to mess with it because I was getting ready to crash and I set it on my nightstand with the cover closed, and just as I was about to fall asleep I heard the screen lock sound go off several times because the sensor basically just started working again (on and off) out of nowhere (I forgot that I still had my screen cover app running). Anyway so the next day after messing with it I realized that if I put pressure on the sensor it would start to work again, so I'm really hoping that it's just a loose data ribbon or connection. I'm getting ready to tear into it and see what the issue is, but I just thought I'd throw this out there in case it helps because even though it might seem to be dead try putting pressure on it and test whether it starts working again and if so you may just have a loose connection. I'll edit this whenever I get down to the problem with mine and post the results. Hope this helps! :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] khalil47:
this worked

this worked perfectly and very simply fixed my issue, I advice anyone having this issue to try this solution.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] junaidqt:
Try this once please

Same happened with me. I googled many forums and i found solution myself....Just do as i did ...

- Go to phone dialer

- Enter *#0*# and dial

- Tap on "Sensor" it will keep vibrating contin'sly with green screen. Leave it vibrating...

Now its time for action...

- Just hold in one hand and stroke it 4/5 time on other hands palm with camera side down just like you are clapping. Stroke it till it stops vibrating.

My note 3 sensor problem is solved since last 2 days.

Hope it will help many users. If its solved for you then please share this trick so we can help many.

Good Luck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] abjc89:
I have tried the compressed air solution and this ^^ clapping my phone solution, and also pressing down on the speaker grill very hard. I can only get my proximity sensor's "ADC" down to 45 under good lighting situations and 55 in dark conditions. Anyone have a link to instructions on how to open the phone up to really clean the dust out?

Also, I used to be able to just unlock the phone and hold volume down or up to go to the max or minimum levels. Now I have to press the volume button once before holding it to go all the way up or down and I think it is because of this proximity sensor being faulty. Do others with this proximity sensor issue also have the volume control issue I mentioned?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rawkus2g:
I have thought I've had a dead proximity sensor for years... turns out there was dust behind the screen. I removed the back cover, removed the sensors, cleaned everything with a glasses cleaning cloth and everything works perfectly! Instructions to disassemble are here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ntOfJS_1c

Dan
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sinnerFA:
I had the same issue, but following the steps and troubleshooting the can of air worked the best!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hacktheplant:
Hello my name is Steven! I recently bought a Note 3 around a week ago. Before this I had a Galaxy Note 2 i317. Im just gonna get straight forward with spme things

So the first thing I noticed is how the back feels. The black feels more like leather "its plastic" and little bit more grippy then the white one....(but the white one feels like plastic...blah) Then theirs that weight it's much lighter then Note 2. And the Note 3 is slightly narrower. So just all of this is a great plus. It simply feels better to hold :)

Screen. .....This screen is just jaw dropping the pixel density is extremely high the whites look white it's amazing. On the note 2 the whites just looked a little blue to me but that's just all changed with the note 3 the screen is crisp the colors are beautiful and and slightly saturated (but not as bad as the note 2) but I like that. Also the brightness is much higher you can easily read or play it outside.

Camera. The camera is just damn good too and the screen helps a lot to here's some pic I took decide for your self there's 1280-720 slow motion video that's takes 1/2 1/4 1/8 of video at 120fps. Also it records 60FPS ( optional) and it looks crazy good :p and all the other options for sences ect.

Hardware. The power buttion and volume buttons are the same just as clicky. The volume buttons are slighty higher then before "it might affect some people with small hangs". The home button has more of click. Think of the silver bar around the note 2 button and have those together to make a button it self so your not pressing down into the sliver bar. So this makes a bigger more stable button that clicks way better. The pen can be put in ether way. Its like a pen that someone sat on lol its flat on top and bottem. The tip is rubber yay! The pen also works with the capacitive buttons double yay!

Battery. When I heard the battery was only 100mah bigger then the Note 2 I thought holy crap the battery is gonna suck.. I was wrong just becayse its more powerfull and it has a higher res display the battery life is about the same I get roughly 4-5 not bad :)

So the choice is yours are you getting a Note 3? Let me know! Got any questions? Let me know!

My name is Steven and I am very happy I bought this phone :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] zachsx:
Welcome to the Note 3 forums! I came from an S4. I was gonna jump to an iPhone cause I hated my S4. But I'm so happy I didn't. I'm a happy customer
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hacktheplant:
Thank you! That makes two of us. I went to a iphone 4 to a note 2 to a note 3. And to me the display looks like a big iphone if not better eat it apple.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] hacktheplant:
Pictures only showed one photo on the post xD
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Ragnar:
Sorry gents this conversation belongs in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46091359

Please continue it there.

Thread closed.

Have a great day!
[T-Mobile HTC One (M7)] juku0022:
Gold HTC One :)

http://www.goldgenie.com/gold-htc-one.php
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] pink_lady03:
Does anyone have suggestion for a water proof headset ?I need a good one for doing laps at the pool.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] Jimmy2u:
check out this ZAGGaquabuds...nice one with the sound and even water proof too....may be you find them better one...
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] Brzina:
Imossible
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] 704djs:
man i need to check that if they r real water proof head phone
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] xdafo:
As far as I know, just Amazon and DX have waterproof headset, have a good luck.:victory:
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] jazzone:
Monster iSports should be good 4U.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Accessories] Deleted member 5657508:
Haha, okay:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/sony-bottled-waterproof-w-walkman/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wu11ie:
Hi folks i hope you can help,

Lately when i'm trying to access the internet on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) it keeps going to a blank web page and tells me that its unavailable because my phone is tethering. The problem is its not and hasn't been tethered to anything since i got it new. I've tried looking through the phone and tried numerous searches but i cant find anything i think would help me.

Has anybody else had this problem that could point me in the right direction ?

Thanks in advance folks :)

Wullie.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hberntsen:
What have you tried?

You could do things like:

- Switch to airplane mode and back

- Enable tether and disable

- Reconfigure your wifi settings

- Reboot
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THpubs:
I have tried CyanogenMod, Paranoid Android, Pacman and many other ROMs on my galaxy tab 2 7". CyanogenMod is light and fast. I like it. But the official stock ROM is more pleasing and easy to use. Have many features that I need. Its really hard to choose!
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kt-Froggy:
What the heck is it with all the "best ROM" threads lately? Please, not another one...

BTW, is there a way to report a thread from Tapatalk? Dont seem to find it...
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynospectrum:
This comes down to personal preference. End of discussion.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spycedtx:
When you find it, please let me know. I've just resorted to sending a pm or hoping [MENTION=340767]name[/MENTION] isn't turned off for them.

-----

I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kt-Froggy:
Nope, didn't find it... I just open a thread in browser (through Tapatalk menu).
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siberian Tiger:
Best rom threads are not allowed.

Find the one it suits your needs best.

Thread closed.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AQuestionMarkk:
Hello,

First post. I was trying to add my information to the lock screen, but when I went to add it, the option wasn't there. Am I in the wrong menu?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hr_kaleu:
I do have it under (on cm 10.2)

Settings - Personalization - screen lock - safety screen (translated from german...)

hope this helps

cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leap_ahead:
settings -security settings-Owner
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hr_kaleu:
I changed my phone to english as default (I'm on CM 10.2)

Settings - Lock screen - Screen Security - Owner Info

Cheers
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AQuestionMarkk:
Thank you all for the reply. I had my screen security to none. In order to display the owner info you must have some sort of security enabled. I set it to slide and there it is.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russiandivxclub:
Hi guys I got 3HT7G model and I am trying to root it so I can install CM. I am having problem with getting device in to fastboot mode. I have several HTC phone and new Nexus 7 and my fastboot works perfectly, SDK is installed and all tools under C:\sdk\platform-tools

Now this is my first Kindle but from what I understand from before I had to always get in to bootloader/fastboot mode manually and only then ADB start to work. In here I see if "waiting for device" is active unit will automatically will get in to fastboot, well it does not for me. Any adias on wtf is going on here this is driving me mad. I have this Kindle drivers installed and adb is checked on in security. I am starting to think my 8.4.6 version is somehow diffirent from other. Anyone please help.

Thank you, once again other devices like Nexus 7 works and getvar command gives me needed answer ......
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
More details on what you have done would be nice, but basically you turn your kindle off, leave it u plugged, and on the PC run "fastboot -i 0x1949 getvar product", once it says waiting for device you plug your kindle in and it should go into fastboot. If you hear windows make a noise like something connected and disconnected very fast but it doesn't enter fastboot then you need to try to install the driver in my signature for the device as it appears on windows so you can successfully run the fastboot command.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russiandivxclub:
Yeah sorry should of known.

1. I tried adb devices

List of devices attached

B0C9100424551JHB device

2. I tried bin4ry tool v31 and instead of usual download/sending I got an path error ....

I was about to copy from prompt ...and it looks like for some reason this time it worked, I do see superuser app now but I did got an error there in the middle , don't know if it matters. I'll report if anything is messed up later on with ROM installation. Anyway to check ROOT status from stock system ? So I know this app is not just pretty face ?
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russiandivxclub:
managed to get everything installed here are last few output code:

C:\Users\Konstantin\Downloads\KindleFireHD89Root\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash

bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'bootloader' (243 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.019s]

writing 'bootloader'...

OKAY [ 0.035s]

finished. total time: 0.055s

C:\Users\Konstantin\Downloads\KindleFireHD89Root\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash

boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.3.img

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'boot' (8173 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.445s]

writing 'boot'...

OKAY [ 0.562s]

finished. total time: 1.009s

C:\Users\Konstantin\Downloads\KindleFireHD89Root\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 flash

recovery kfhd8-twrp-2.6.0.0-recovery.img

target reported max download size of 1006632960 bytes

sending 'recovery' (8173 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.445s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.567s]

finished. total time: 1.014s

C:\Users\Konstantin\Downloads\KindleFireHD89Root\stuff>fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.000s

C:\Users\Konstantin\Downloads\KindleFireHD89Root\stuff>[/CODE]

After reboot for about 30 mins now I see kindlefire logo (fire is blue in logo) It does not reboot or anything it just sits there. Oh man I hope I haven't screw something up. I tried to boot in to recovery, I could. I restarted again, and again I am on blue kindlefire logo. What's going on ? Anything I should try ? I don't have any roms inside device memory yet. In device manager I see Kindle with yellow mork on it (odd)
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
You have to put the ROM on the sdcard so you can flash it when it does this, use my tutorial to get a ROM on it, also try updating the drivers again for the device with an exclamation using the ones in my signature. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2459498

Technically you can also boot the device into stock rooted os, but you need to flash an older version from before they started making sure the boot loader was the same version as the os, otherwise when they don't match the end result is well, what you have before you right now.
[8.9" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russiandivxclub:
I always do this to myself, ALWAYS. I panic and think this is the problem I and only I could possibly have and about 3 posts later I found like 10 more people with exact same problem that think this is first in the world just like me, anyhow I did sideload feature and loaded cm .zip and installed sideload.zip from install. I am looking at CM logo booting, so far so good.

P.S.

I was looking at that logo for sometime now, I had to do wipe data and restart once again. All good now.

Thank you !
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] 95scort:
I have the Siemens sx-66 pocket pc phone and it really got annoying having to wait 1 minute for the device to go into standby mode. Because my power button no longer powers the device off. So i googled and searched around until i found this freeware program http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/psshutxp.shtml It is a utility that when once installed, can be used to power down, reset, or turn off the backlight. With an interphase similar to the windows xp power-down prompt.

This i found to be much better than waiting a full minute for the device to power down.

I mapped the program to my calendar button since i never use calendar anyway, and when the program pops up, i tap "Turn Off" and it instantly puts the device into standby.

This doesn't fix the Hardware power button malfunction, But it sure beats waitin' around wasting precious battery. ;)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] robal:
Hi

I'd recommend hard resetting your PDA and starting all over again.

I'm 99% sure that your device will go to standby correctly after cleaning it up (hard reset).

Remember to backup your data.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] 95scort:
already tried hard resetting. Once accidently (let my sister play with it until the battery was COMPLETELY dead). and 2 more times intentionally from reccomendations (after making back-ups of course). Still had the same problem afterwards. I'm happy with the program.

p.s. Best part is it's free!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
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XDA:DevDB Information

Galaxy Note fre3, a ROM for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Contributors

freeza

ROM OS Version: 4.3.x Jellybean

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

Version Information

Status: Testing

Current Beta Version: 1.0

Beta Release Date: 2013-10-14

Created 2013-10-09

Last Updated 2013-10-09
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] se7envirtues:
I'll prequel all of this by stating that I am a complete noob to the Android. After reading the stickies to this forum (correct me if I'm wrong), flashing the device sounds promising, but I don't know if that solution is even applicable to my problem. I'm worried I've completely bricked my HTC One X. Any help would be greatly appreciated and here's everything I can tell you about the situation.

The phone is an HTC One X Endeavor. When turned on, it shows the boot screen (HTC-quietly brilliant). Holding the power and the down volume buttons reveals the bootloader menu. The phone is unlocked and the problem occurred after an attempt to root the device. When I plug it into my computer I hear the sound that signals I've connected a new device, but under My Computer it brings up a CD drive, which can't be browsed.

If I pull up the bootloader menu while it is plugged into my laptop, this text comes up on the screen briefly:

checking sd card update

sd checking

failed to open usb master mode

loading pj46img.zip

failed to open usb master mode

please plug off usb

After running through that it just goes to HBOOT. I can still access FASTBOOT and all that, but nothing seems to work. Is there any way to revive my HTC?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
You're in the wrong forum, this is the HTC One XL forum. You need to ask in the HTC One X forum, we don't know enough about your phone here, sorry.

Sent from my Evita
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] DvineLord:
You also seem not to be bricked just noobish.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] se7envirtues:
Thank you for the responses and apologies for posting in the wrong forum. I misread "Rogers HTC One X" to be my model. I'll take this to the right forum and again thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

¬edit¬ I've had another look through the forums and if someone would be find enough to point me to the proper forums for my problem then I'd appreciate it. I've searched these and found similar topics regarding the HTC One X so thought this was the right place to ask.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1533

Sent from my Evita
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] poisonsushi319:
Hello,

I just got my Note 3, still waiting on my Samsung GEar (which should be arriving tomorrow) and s-view cover (hasnt shipped yet). But I was wondering if I should sell my Note 3 and get the Xperia Z ultra instead?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 General] Cloudmoose:
Wait till you get the note 3 in and see if it's not too big for you. I had the same thoughts but went with the note because the z ultra is just too big for me.

Watching videos and looking at size comparisons you can see the note 3 is big. The z ultra is huge.

Another deal breaker for me was no flash on the z ultra. I use torch way to much to go without.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kemar7856:
I tried 5 different roms paranoid android,everlov,pacman etc they all have the same result with every rom when it boots I get the acore process error but if I try going into settings open any apps the screen turns black all except for paranoid kingdroid. With this rom the screen doesn't turn black but it lags from the acore.process error and the sound/mic does not work.

I tried flashing these roms over and over reformating the system and tried them both with two iffernt kernels uber 2.0 and hot-kernelz I honestly don't know what else to do nothing is working for me

*clearing contacts does not work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] salutcemoi:
Well got a 52 $ ticket thanks to those idiots

How ? Long story

Anyway I'm pissed

MODS: please move this if its the wrong forum; thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] scott14719:
Mt AT&T S4 works just fine. Imma gonna go buy something with my extra $52 that I really want. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] salutcemoi:
hey thats not funny :p